Isle of WightEurope’s first megaraptoran is a 5-metre, tiger-weight hunter.
It fits the hypothesis that megaraptorans spread from Asia through Europe to Africa and South America.
A fragmented braincase sat unnoticed in the Natural History Museum’s drawers from 1924 until researchers named it Invictibellatrix amberina.
Paleontologists still debate whether megaraptorans are tyrannosaur relatives, and this braincase is Europe’s only evidence.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick
- stresses the species is the first megaraptoran known from Europe, showing how the group spread globally
Sources: Daily Maverick