Monday, April 17, 2023

Dinosaur with SCISSOR-like claws roamed Britain 168 million years ago

Mysterious ancient teeth found in three English counties are believed to belong to a dinosaur with scissor-like claws which roamed Britain 168 million years ago.
Paleontologists said the fossils unearthed in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Dorset were the first ever examples of therizinosaur and troodontid dinosaurs on UK soil.
Not only that, but the remains are the world's oldest-known evidence of those species and could represent some of the earliest relatives of birds ever discovered. 
Therizinosaurus – which featured in the most recent Jurassic World film – was a large herbivore dinosaur from the late Cretaceous known for its distinctive long scissor-like claw bones. 
Along with the troodontid and well-known Velociraptor, it belonged to a group of ancient creatures called the maniraptorans.
Dinosaur with SCISSOR-like claws roamed Britain 168 million years ago

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