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Imaging technology has revolutionised palaeontology, allowing scientists to study fossils that are buried deep in the rock or too small to handle. Two recent studies I was involved with show some of the technology’s potential, including one that discovered a new dinosaur species that loomed over other carnivores it lived alongside hundreds of millions of years ago.
In the first study, my colleagues and I investigated an impression of a fossil jawbone that had been described in 1899 only as having come from a possible dinosaur.
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