14 October 2026 EN sci-news ✎ édité manuellement

New Species of Predatory Dinosaur Identified in UK

museum United Kingdom Dinosauria Invictibellatrix Megaraptora new species

A fossilized braincase that sat in in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London for a century has been identified as Europe’s first megaraptoran dinosaur, a lineage once thought to have flourished mainly in the southern hemisphere. The post New Species of Predatory Dinosaur Identified in UK appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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C. Morrison, C. R. Scherer, and P. Mannion, L. B. Porro, B. Clark, D. D. Folkes, P. M. Barrett. 2026. A new megaraptoran dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, UK, and its implications for theropod evolution and biogeography. Royal Society Open Science 13(10):1-33

DOI: 10.1098/rsos.260937 ↗

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