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The dinosaur in the drawer: a new species waited a century to be noticed

A fossil skull fragment collected on the Isle of Wight and kept at the Natural History Museum since 1924 has turned out to be a dinosaur nobody had named: Invictibellatrix amberina, a long-clawed predator about the size of a large tiger that lived 120 million years ago. The UCL-led team says it is the first of its megaraptoran group — cousins of the tyrannosaurs — ever found in Europe.

The upbeat factormuseums are time machines with drawers — and one just opened onto a brand-new dinosaur.
✓ Verified · Classic FM · 2026-10-14 · UK
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