A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London鈥檚 .
Researchers have named this new species Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a speedy, two-legged herbivore, 64 centimetres tall and 180 cm long that lived about 145 million to 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period.
快猫短视频 spoke to聽a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, who analysed the Enigmacursor specimen, which was uncovered from the in the western US in 2021-22. The Morrison Formation has produced fossils of some of the most famous dinosaurs in the world, such as 听补苍诲听. But not all of its species are as well-known. Many smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, in particular, have been historically overlooked.
Maidment hopes that this work will shine some light on long-ignored animals of the formation and clear the way for more discoveries in the future.