now, research is that the natural history museum have identified fossils of what they believe is the oldest meat eating dinosaur that lived, wow, existed in the uk. the dinosaur was a relative of the t rex but it was the size of a chicken. the fragments were found at a welsh quarry more than half a century ago, but they ve only just quarry more than half a century ago, but they ve onlyjust come to light again. here s the bbc s christ money. it s the closest wales has ever had to a real life dragon the metre long, meat eating theropod christened pendraig, or chief dragon. and this is what remains. a hip and thigh bone lost for years in the natural history museum s collection until they were recovered from the wrong drawer and everything fell into place. this is one of the oldest dinosaurs from the uk and it the oldest known meat eating dinosaurfrom the uk. this period was when dinosaurs first started evolving. so, dinosaurs are very famous from later days, in thejurassic and the creta
middle and the end, and this is the beginning of this story for the dinosaurs. so if you re thinking of predatory dinosaurs, any beastie that is going to chow down on meat, that is something which we re all interested in. the ultimate predator, t rex, has a family history, and this is going right the way back to the beginning of predatory dinosaurs. so it s a really important find. but the clues to its existence have been hidden in the depths of the natural history museum since the 1950s, mistakenly filed alongside crocodile remains. there is not much of the animal. what we have is fantastically preserved. it is only now that the uk s earliest meat eating dinosaur has been identified. it goes to show how vast the collections of the natural history museum are, and we have so many specimens and it is not always as straightforward. discoveries like this are rare, but they give us a very important insight into the very early stages of dinosaur evolution.
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scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that s related to the fearsome t rex but it was about the size of a chicken. the creature, called pendraig milnerae lived more than 200 million years ago in what we now know as south wales it s a discovery that nearly didn t happen because of a filing error, as our science correspondent laura foster reports. it s a killer roughly the size of a chicken, and it existed tens of millions of years before more well known dinosaurs such as the t rex and velociraptor came along. it would have had a very narrow and long snout, but otherwise, yeah, a typical theropod walking on two legs, with a long tail and a mouth full of sharp, serrated teeth. but the clues to its existence have been hidden in the depths of the natural history museum since the 1950s mistakenly filed alongside crocodile remains. there s not much of the animal. what we have is really fantastically preserved. it s only now the uk s earliest meat eating dinosaur has been