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Behold! 8 ferocious dinosaurs unearthed in 2021

by Jennifer Walter
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Llukalkan aliocranianus
Jorge Blanco and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

This year, paleontologists discovered scores of dinosaur species new to science.

2021 was no anomaly — every year ends with dozens of new species on the record.

The more scientists dig, the more mysteries they dig up, too.

Kurt Miller/Stocktrek Images/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images
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