A newly discovered dinosaur species was identified from a fossil that had been in a museum in London for more than 100 years.
LONDON, UK — Scientists in the United Kingdom have identified a previously unknown dinosaur species from a fossil that sat overlooked in a museum for more than 100 years.
The fossil, part of a skull, was originally found on the Isle of Wight in the UK and acquired by Britain's Natural History Museum in 1924. But it sat in a drawer, unstudied, until scientists took a closer look, doing CT scans and creating a 3D model of it, the museum said Wednesday after the research was published.
Paleontologists compared the fossil to the skulls of other carnivorous dinosa...

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