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Giant salamander-like predator that lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs had huge fangs and sucked up prey with its weird head.

A newly identified dinosaur with large, ornate horns on its massive head shield has been named after a famous Norse god who sported a similar headpiece in recent Marvel movies.

Visitors to Lake Kariba – the world’s largest man-made lake, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe – come to enjoy the abundant wildlife, fine fishing or spectacular scenery. However, in 2017, our crew of palaeontologists came to Zimbabwe to hunt game of a different kind: dinosaurs.

'I can't wait to see everyone there doing the Romp Bomp a Stomp.'

A rare giant skeleton of a 66 million-year-old T.rex is set to go on show in an Australian-first exhibit that has paleontologists champing at the bit.

Even if you think that’s how markets work, it’s hard to stomach the illegal trade it fosters and the resulting loss to science, says academic David Hone

Discovery was turned into a documentary narrated by Sir Sam Neill who played Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park films

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