This carnivorous dinosaur fossil, originally discovered at Pant-y-ffynnon in southern Wales, was mistaken for another species for many years. Finally, after 40 years, during which it has been lost, found, and renamed, paleontologists say it represents an entirely new species which they have named as Pendraig milnerae. It is the oldest meat-eating dinosaur found in Britain and roamed an area—which is now Wales—200 million years ago. Dr. Stephan Spiekman is a paleontologist in the department of earth sciences at the Natural History Museum in London and was involved in the research. Completely dwarfed in size by the T-Rex, the fossil of the Pendraig milnerae was originally discovered in a quarry in the 1950s. “This animal that we’ve now described, it was actually already found back in the 1950s, so it’s been in the collection of the museum for a while. And actually somebody even studied it for a part of …
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