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SCIENCEApr 15 · 13:31 UTCSCIENCE DAILY

A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed

A crushed dinosaur skull, forgotten in a drawer, was reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student to reveal a new species of early carnivorous dinosaur with unique features. The fossil suggests some dinosaur groups were wiped out during the end-Triassic extinction, potentially representing one of the last survivors of an ancient lineage.

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