T-Rex of the Deep: Fossil of 135million-year-old theropod discovered very much intact The ‘best ever’ remains of a predator dinosaur have been unearthed in Germany with 98 per cent of its skeleton intact. The discovery of the dinosaur, nicknamed Otto by palaeontologists in Bavaria, is being hailed as a sensation, and the German government has already decreed it cannot leave the country. The theropod - ‘beast-footed’ - dinosaur is of the same family as the T. rex but the individual found in Kelheim has not yet been categorized. Otto is 28 inches long and a juvenile. Hair and traces of skin have also been found on the skeleton. The creature lived 135 million years ago and is being exhibited to the public for the first time on October 27 for four days at a special dinosaur exhibition in Munich. ‘It is a truly outstanding find,’ said Oliver Rauhut, curator at the Bavarian National Collection for Palaeontology and Geology where the find was announced today, ‘It is the best of its kind ever found in Europe.’

T-Rex of the Deep: Fossil of 135million-year-old theropod discovered very much intact

The ‘best ever’ remains of a predator dinosaur have been unearthed in Germany with 98 per cent of its skeleton intact.

The discovery of the dinosaur, nicknamed Otto by palaeontologists in Bavaria, is being hailed as a sensation, and the German government has already decreed it cannot leave the country.

The theropod - ‘beast-footed’ - dinosaur is of the same family as the T. rex but the individual found in Kelheim has not yet been categorized.

Otto is 28 inches long and a juvenile. Hair and traces of skin have also been found on the skeleton.

The creature lived 135 million years ago and is being exhibited to the public for the first time on October 27 for four days at a special dinosaur exhibition in Munich.

‘It is a truly outstanding find,’ said Oliver Rauhut, curator at the Bavarian National Collection for Palaeontology and Geology where the find was announced today, ‘It is the best of its kind ever found in Europe.’

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