The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.

The researchers also uncovered previously unknown photographs of an Egyptian dinosaur skeleton. These images, taken before the museum’s destruction, showcased parts of the skull

Less than a decade later, World War II swallowed Germany. The fossils were housed in the Old Academy building of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology when the campus was hit by air raids on July 21, 1944, completely destroying the wing containing fossils from Egypt, researchers said.

Scientists found a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt named Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photographs of fossils that were destroyed during World War II, The Sun reported. In 2023, researchers from the University of Tübingen in Germany discovered previously unknown photographs of the lost fossils in the Huene Archive,

Archaeologists Baffled after Discovering Gigantic Skull of a 200-million-year-Old Dinosaur, Say it is a Never-Before-Seen Species In a groundbreaking discovery that has left archaeologists astounded,

Dave Lovelace, the research scientist at UW-Madison's Geology Museum, and his team of paleontologists discovered North America's oldest-known fossil that is 230 million years old. "It took about 10 years for us to build that story,