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A fossil from the Natural History Museum in London turned out to be a new dinosaur species

A skull fragment kept at the Natural History Museum in London for almost 100 years has been identified as a new species of predatory dinosaur, Invictibellatrix amberina, which lived about 120 million years ago. It is the first confirmed evidence of a megaraptor in Europe. The find was made on the Isle of Wight by collector Reginald Walter Hooley, who died in 1924; a study using CT scanning was published in Royal Society Open Science.

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Snapshot of elephant carrying her dead calf wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026

The top prize of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 contest went to 'The Aftermath' by Italian Federico Veronesi: an elephant carries her dead calf in the Huab River valley in Namibia. The youth award was won by 14-year-old Oscar Wheatfield. In total, 20 winners were selected from a record 65,403 entries from 121 countries. The exhibition opens at the Natural History Museum in London on 16 October 2026.

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