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SCIENCEMay 2 · 10:00 UTCTHE GUARDIAN WORLDNicola Davis Science correspondent

German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil

A German museum is returning a rare 113-million-year-old Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil after a long restitution campaign. The fossil, a nearly complete spinosaurid skull, was acquired by Stuttgart’s Museum of Natural History in 1991 and represents a previously unknown genus of meat-eating dinosaurs.

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