PARIS: Wales has joined the ranks of countries able to boast of dinosaur discoveries. Researchers have announced the unearthing of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, the first carnivorous dinosaur fossil to be uncovered in the nation.
Found on a beach near Penarth, the T. rex’s relative lived around 200 million years ago – in the earliest portion of the Jurassic period – making it possibly the oldest Jurassic dinosaur discovered anywhere in the world, according to experts.
“It is very rare to find this type of dinosaur at all and never before in Wales,” said paleontologist John Nudds of the University of Manchester. “In fact it is only the second dinosaur ever found in Wales.”
The fossil was uncovered when part of a cliff collapsed onto the beach following spring storms in 2014.
Because some of the bones were not fully formed, experts believe the animal was a juvenile specimen, probably just 20 inches tall and slightly more than 6 feet in length.
The dinosaur species – which has not yet been named – would have been small, slim and agile, living at a time when southern Wales offered a climate much warmer than today.
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