- Palaeontologists have identified a new tiger-sized dinosaur species, Invictibellatrix amberina, from a fossil skull kept at the Natural History Museum for nearly 100 years.
- The fossil, originally found on the Isle of Wight in 1924, provides the first evidence of a megaraptoran — an agile relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex — in Europe.
- Measuring up to four metres long with large curved claws, researchers say that the creature would have been more dangerous to humans than a T-rex if they had lived at the same time, as humans would have been ideal prey size.
- CT scans of the fossil revealed unique skull features, confirming it as a distinct, previously undiscovered species.
- The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, highlights how megaraptors migrated globally from Asia through Europe to southern landmasses before going extinct in the north.
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