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Treasure hunters target Welsh beach where girl, four, discovered 215million-year-old dinosaur footprint as vandals armed with sledgehammers and crowbars try to remove rocks Lily Wilder found the dinosaur footprint on a beach at Bendricks Bay near Barry Armed vandals have since descended on the beach to get a glimpse of her find Environmentalists said ‘several people’ … Read more
Dino-mite find! Girl, four, finds 215million-year-old dinosaur footprint during family walk on the beach Lilly Wilder found the ‘perfectly preserved’ print on a beach in Llandough, Wales Experts called it ‘the finest impression’ of a print of its type found in a decade 215-million-year-old rock fossil was made by a creature unknown to science By … Read more
Giant stork-like dinosaur Spinosaurus that lived in North Africa 100 million years ago fed by snatching fish from the shoreline, study shows Spinosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs reaching up to 49ft Previous theories suggested they actively hunted prey by swimming in the sea British and American researchers now believe it was more … Read more
Scientists have found an ‘exquisitely preserved’ skull of a herbivorous dinosaur species in New Mexico, known for its weird head adornment. The skull belongs to the iconic tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus, which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5 million to 73 million years ago. The huge herbivorous reptiles sported trumpet-like nasal passages which they … Read more
Did DINOSAURS beat man to the MOON? Bones from giant reptiles were flung into space when the extinction-event asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago, scientists claim An excerpt from ‘The End of the World’ by Peter Brannen was shared to Twitter It describes the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million … Read more
Did DINOSAURS beat man to the MOON? Bones from giant reptiles were flung into space when the extinction-event asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago, scientists claim An excerpt from ‘The End of the World’ by Peter Brannen was shared to Twitter It describes the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million … Read more
From a 65 million-year-old dinosaur skull to cutting-edge modern design, not for nothing has Aynhoe Park been dubbed a museum crossed with a fantasy world. Indeed, ‘Downton meets Wonderland’ is how some have described the interior of the 17th-century Oxfordshire mansion, which played host to Jade Jagger’s wedding and Noel Gallagher’s 50th birthday party. Much … Read more
Controversy has surrounded the fossil of a chicken-sized dinosaur with unique shoulder ‘needles’ — after claims it may have been exported from Brazil illegally. Dating back some 110 million years, the unusual specimen was recently named Ubirajara jubatus — or ‘Maned Lord of the Spear’ — after its distinguishing spines. Experts have proposed that the … Read more
‘My mam let me dress myself’: Bake Off star Candice Brown, 36, rocks dinosaur dungarees as she celebrates her birthday after a ‘bad year’ By Bryony Jewell For Mailonline Published: 00:52 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 00:52 GMT, 22 December 2020 She’s not had the easiest of years after splitting from her husband Liam … Read more
A peculiar, chicken-sized dinosaur which sported long ‘needles’ sticking out of its shoulders has been discovered. Experts led from Portsmouth found the new species — originally unearthed in 1995 in the Chapada do Araripe in north-eastern Brazil — among the collections of the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe, Germany. Dubbed Ubirajara jubatus — indigenous Indian for ‘Maned … Read more