An artist’s impression of Pendraig milnerae, the UK’s earliest known theropod dinosaur James Robbins
Fossils of a small meat-eating dinosaur discovered in a quarry near Cardiff offer the earliest evidence ever found in the UK of theropods, a hugely diverse groups of dinosaurs that includes T. rex, VelociraptorÌý²¹²Ô»å all birds.
This animal, which has been named Pendraig milnerae, lived between 200 and 215 million years ago, during the Late Triassic Epoch. It was unearthed in a quarry called Pant-y-ffynnon located north-west of Cardiff in the 1950s, but the fossil was lost for decades in the collections at…
