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

Found the specimen in the early 1920s

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