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First European megaraptoran dinosaur identified from 102-year-old Isle of Wight fossil

Led the study that identified the new species

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.

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It was not the apex predator of its time, but for humans this dinosaur would have been more dangerous than a T. rex. We would have been perfectly sized prey.

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They definitely would have chased us. A T. rex would not have bothered, as we would have been too small.

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