The pretty little UK county that was once home to Europe's largest dinosaur
A hit with tourists from both home and abroad, this slice of Britain was once overrun with terrifying prehistoric beasts.
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A hit with tourists from both home and abroad, this slice of Britain was once overrun with terrifying prehistoric beasts.
I picked up a lot of dead stuff in Morocco. One of the neatest things I brought back was this very large owl pellet (now broken into bits), discovered by Dave Martill at the same place where we were awoken at night by big, hooting owls assumed to have been Desert eagle owls Bubo ascalaphus [back-story here]...
A new dinosaur species named Vectidromeus insularis has been identified after the fossil was found by an amateur collector.
Archaeology U.K. Researchers Have Identified a New Dinosaur Species, Thanks to an Amateur Fossil Collector's Discovery on the Isle of Wight ...
Fossils have been discovered from a dinosaur called vectidromeus insularis, which lived about 125 million years ago and roamed alongside early tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and iguanodons.