Ireland's first dinosaur bones
A new study of fossilised bones reveals that dinosaurs roamed our shores about 200 million years ago. The bones, which were found along Co Antrimâs eastern coast in the 1980s, are the only dinosaur remains to have ever been recorded on the island of Ireland. Since their discovery, palaeontologists had long suspected that they were of dinosaur origin but now dinosaur experts have finally identified them as such. âPeople knew about them but they had never been formally described. Now itâs official. We know what these dinosaurs are,â says Dr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeon...
Source: irishtimes.com
