EXCLUSIVE🚨: Epic dinosaur skull dug up in Kyrgyzstan desert has got scientists EXCITED. HERE'S WHY

A new species of predatory dinosaur discovered in a mountainous desert region near the city of Tashkumyr in western Kyrgyzstan has been named by palaeontologists following several excavation campaigns between 2006 and 2023.

Parts of the skull, including a peculiar 'eyebrow' feature, along with numerous other bones were unearthed at the site over the 17-year period.

The new species, which has been named Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, is type of theropod, a large group of animals that includes well-known dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, as well as modern birds. Analysis suggests it would have been eight or nine metres in length – about the size of a male orca.

It's the first ever theropod dinosaur found in Kyrgyzstan, and "closes a huge gap in our knowledge of the Jurassic theropods," says Professor Oliver Rauhut, who led the follow-up study on Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, published in the Zoological Journal.

Theropods are one of the best-known groups of dinosaurs, once widespread across the planet. However, no large Jurassic predatory dinosaurs were previously known from the huge region between central Europe and East Asia.

But in 2006, Kyrgyz palaeontologist Aizek Bakirov changed all that when he discovered the first remains of Alpkarakush kyrgyzicu in the mountainous deserts of western Kyrgyzstan. The sediments of the Balabansai Formation exposed here were deposited during the Middle Jurassic period around 165 million years ago.

During several ensuing excavation campaigns between 2006 and 2023, skull bones, dorsal and pelvic vertebrae, fragments of the shoulder girdle and forelimbs, the almost complete pelvic girdle and hind limbs of the dinosaur were uncovered.

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