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Thinking it was a piece of plastic floating, he picked it up, only to be surprised when the whole fossil emerged.
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Thinking it was a piece of plastic floating, he picked it up, only to be surprised when the whole fossil emerged.
The majority roamed what is now Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight, but significant finds have also been made in Bristol, Cambridgeshire, the south of England, Nottingham and Yorkshire.
A field in Gloucestershire that is now filled with English Longhorn cattle was once home to a range of marine animals, a new study has revealed.
Isle of Wight fossil and geological business scoops prize at Travel and Hospitality Awards.
One of the largest collections of rare marine fossils anywhere in the UK has been discovered by a couple using Google Earth. Non-professional palaeontologists Neville and Sally Hollingworth, from Swindon, discovered the site in Wiltshire during the second lockdown, while researching the geology of the area online. After being contacted by the couple, Dr Tim Ewin, a senior curator in Earth sciences at the Natural History Museum (NHM), secured funding for a dig at the site, and was amazed at the number of specimens discovered. The findings of hundreds of samples, from the Middle Jurassic (174 ...