An old photograph of the centre of Caerleon ANYONE who knows Caerleon would know at one look where this picture was taken. It is in the centre of the village on Caerleon High Street, which is one of the places there where the road divides into many side streets.
An old photograph of the centre of Caerleon Today it is home to Burlesque hair dressers and Coffiology to name just a few of the businesses. According to Johns Directory of Caerleon, 1934: Caerleon is an ancient market town, civil parish and Urban District, three miles N. E. from Newport, and is a polling station for the parishes of Tredunnock, Llanhennock, Kemeys Inferior, Llanthewy Vach, Llandegveth, and Llangattock-Caerleon.
it was stated that “there are no fossilised bones from this 220-million-year-old dinosaur, but similar footprints in the USA are known to have been made by the dinosaur
Coelophysis which does not occur in the UK.”
Richard Wilder, Lily’s father, told Carol Off, host of the show
As It Happens, that the four-year-old is now very interested in dinosaurs and that his daughter, “carries a toy
Tyrannosaurus rex everywhere she goes,” despite having been afraid of dinosaurs before the discovery.
“Now she’s a massive dinosaur fan,” her father explained.
The footprint was an unexpected finding, as the Wilder family were walking on Bendricks bay beach looking for shells, as reported by the
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Opinion/Flotsam & Jetsam: Dinosaur prints and an eccentric pianist
By Jim Carter
What’s in the numbers? Massachusetts Lottery officials said they had 50 (count ‘em fifty) Mass Cash drawing winners a couple weeks ago, all of whom selected 3-9-15-21-27. They had to split the $2.4 million jackpot, which reduced their take-home to about $48,000 each. The numbers are all six digits apart, and appeared stacked in a vertical line on the bet slip. They’ve had multiple winners who had to share the pot before, but never 50. (Sharing the wealth.)
Speaking of records, German scientists have discovered a heretofore unknown chameleon that is the smallest known reptile on planet earth. Called the Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, the discoverers from the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich said it’s so small it could hide inside a sunflower seed shell. They found a pair of the tiny lizards in Madagascar, one male and one female (hopefully compatible), but could find no more
4-Year-Old Girl Discovers Fossilized Dinosaur Footprint From Triassic on Beach in Wales
A perfect fossilized dinosaur footprint was discovered by a 4-year-old girl on a Welsh beach last week. Scientists say the print dates back to the Triassic period, and are calling it “the finest impression of a 215-million-year-old dinosaur print found in Britain in a decade.”
Lily Wilder and her father, Richard, were taking a stroll along the beach in the Bendricks when Lily spotted the print.
Initially, the Wilders thought the print was left behind by an artist, but it was in fact a real grallator, or a three-toed fossilized footprint, left behind by a bipedal theropod dinosaur.