The species was described as Dracoraptor by a team including Dave Martill in 2016, and at 200 million years old may be the earliest Jurassic dinosaur known in the world.2 Dracoraptor was an agile carnivore, 2 metres long with a long tail and just half a metre tall. Related to a small North American dinosaur called Coelophysis, it likely fed upon insects and small mammals and reptiles. It is only the second dinosaur ever found in Wales, and the nation’s first carnivore. Dinosaurs were evolving rapidly in the early Jurassic, forming some of the major groups, but there are few specimens from this
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