Scientists have named a creature dating back 201 million years and found on a Welsh beach.
It is one of the oldest known Jurassic dinosaurs and related to the fearsome T Rex.
It was discovered on Lavernock beach by a pair of fossil-hunting brothers.
Nick and Rob Hanigan, from Llantwit Major, made the “discovery of a lifetime” when they found the fossilised skull and bones on the beach in the Vale of Glamorgan after storms in spring 2014.
Now the juvenile creature, Dracoraptor hanigani, bears their name.
Dracoraptor is Latin for “dragon robber” – with a red dragon the national symbol of Wales. Read more>>>
