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Published online 15 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.249
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Dinosaur discovered after a century on the shelf
New sauropod genus lay unappreciated in London museum basement for 113 years.
A part-time palaeontologist who programs computers as a day job has uncovered a new dinosaur species — not buried in the ground but hidden in the bowels of the Natural History Museum in London, UK.
After 113 years lying unloved and unstudied in the museum's vaults, the fossil's importance was finally realized by Mike Taylor, who was trawling the museum's collections as part of his part-time study for a PhD at the University of Portsmouth.
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