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Creature has been named Vectipelta barretti after Prof Paul Barrett of London’s Natural History Museum

Vectipelta barretti is named after the Natural History Museum’s Professor Paul Barrett

Vectipelta barretti is named after Natural History Museum’s Professor Paul Barrett.

Vectipelta barretti is named after Natural History Museum’s Professor Paul Barrett.

In June 1993, director Steven Spielberg released a film that unleashed a wave of technological change in film-making and simultaneously helped to revive popular interest in dinosaurs.

Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils, gemstones and preserved animals. Herbaria – collections of pressed, dried plant specimens – are a less-known but important type of natural history collection. There are some 400 million botanical specimens stored across over 3,500 herbaria…

Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park was filmed with groundbreaking CGI and life-sized animatronic dinosaurs which even made the crew nervous during filming in Hawaii in 1992

The plant-eating, raptor-like dinosaur lived during a time of great transition around 99 million years ago and was named after the Roman god Janus.

Kelvinside Academy pupils and staff were hunted down by the prehistoric creatures as they mark 30 years since science fiction blockbuster Jurassic Park was released

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The species lived in what is now Utah during the mid-Cretaceous period around 99 million years ago.