Paleontologists discover a new species of North African predatory dinosaur in archived images

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Jan 15, 2025, 9:49 am109 pts
SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, about 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is that the original fossil from Egypt was completely destroyed 80 years ago, during World War II.

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