{
  "id": 14318010,
  "title": "Isle of Wight fossil Europe's first known long-clawed megaraptoran dinosaur",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/isle-of-wight-fossil-europes-first-known-long-clawed-megaraptoran",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-13T23:10:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-isle-wight-fossil-europe-clawed.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new species of dinosaur—a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger—has been discovered by a UCL-led team from a fossil found on the Isle of Wight. The dinosaur, described in a new paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science, belongs to a group of agile, two-legged carnivores called megaraptorans and is the first of this group to be found in Europe.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "New Scientist",
        "title": "Dinosaur named new species 102 years after fossil found on Isle of Wight",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/dinosaur-named-new-species-102-years-after-fossil-found-on-isle-of",
        "published": "2026-10-13T23:01:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Isle of Wight fossil sheds light on enigmatic meat-eating dinosaurs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/isle-of-wight-fossil-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-meat-eating-dinosaurs",
        "published": "2026-10-13T23:07:25.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}