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New long-clawed British dinosaur is the first of its kind in Europe

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par Charlie Scherer, PhD Candidate in Earth Sciences, UCL
Cassius Morrison, Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeontology, UCL

The fossilised skull of a new species of mysterious meat-eating dinosaur from the Isle of Wight has been rediscovered in the collections of the Natural History Museum after over 100 years in storage.

Over its nearly 150-year history, this London museum has become home to over 30 million specimens, making it fairly easy to forget about the odd fossil or rock here and there. This is almost definitely what happened to the only known fossil of the UK’s newest dinosaur, a two-legged meat-eating theropod (the dinosaur…

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