New predator dinosaur species discovered after nearly 100 years of misclassification

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New predator dinosaur species discovered after nearly 100 years of misclassification

Researchers identified a new dinosaur species that lived in Africa roughly 95 million years ago and published their findings last week in the journal PLOS ONE.

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One of the largest dinosaurs to ever live on Earth has been discovered - more than 100 years of mystery has come to an end.

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New species of North African predatory dinosaur discovered

The fossil’s eventful history stretches far back into the past: the original skeleton of the large predatory dinosaur was described by the Munich paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871-1952). It was excavated in 1914 during an expedition in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt and was sent to Stromer in Munich shortly after. There it was stored together with other Egyptian dinosaur fossils in the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and…