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A team of researchers has unearthed multiple skeletons of a new species of feathered, two-fingered, toothless dinosaur buried under the sands of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia for 68 million years. Dubbed as Oxoco Averson, this remarkable creature is considered a key ‘missing link’ and is already helping to demastify …

Say hello to a new theropod dinosaur species, Vectaerovenator inopinatus. Discovered after a series of serendipitous fossil finds on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, it is thought to date to 115 million years ago, during the Cretaceous. The Latin name of the new dino roughly refers to …