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CT Scans Reveal New European Dinosaur Species in Storage

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  • Natural History Museum researchers identified a new dinosaur species, Invictibellatrix amberina.
  • Reginald Walter Tooley collected the skull fragment on the Isle of Wight.
  • The fragment stayed in storage for nearly a century before CT scanning produced a 3D model.
  • Publication in Royal Society Open Science confirmed the first European megaraptoran dinosaur.
  • Dr Cassius Morrison (UCL) suggested it ate small dinosaurs, lizards, mammals and may have had feathers.