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Paul Barrett's home institution; led the description of Musango
A 210-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the shore of Lake Kariba is the second species found only in Zimbabwe's Late Triassic rocks. Named Musango matusadonaensis, the sauropodomorph walked on two legs, reached about 4.5 meters long, weighed about 220 kilograms, and is Zimbabwe's fifth named dinosaur genus.
Updated 7 days ago
Repository of the fossil, specimen NHMUK PV R6775
A fossil that spent more than a century in a London museum drawer has a new identity. Researchers identified the skull fragment, collected on the Isle of Wight in the 1920s, as a new species of megaraptoran, a tiger-sized, long-clawed predator related to Tyrannosaurus rex.
Updated Oct 19
As of September 2026: Repository of the 1963 Tanzanian fossil collection
A fossil that sat in a London museum for more than 60 years is forcing paleontologists to revise the early dinosaur timeline. The animal, Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, was a plant-eater that lived in what is now Tanzania about 240 million years ago.
Updated Sep 16
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