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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil

A computer-generated image of Irritator challengeri walking on a beach
A computer-generated image of Irritator challengeri. Illustration: Stocktrek Images/Alamy

It is a 113-million-year-old bone of contention.

After Stuttgart’s museum of natural history bought a fossilised dinosaur skull in 1991, researchers found it was the most complete spinosaurid skull known to date, belonging to a previously unknown genus of the huge meat-eating dinosaurs.

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