Science: dinosaur find in Dorset

by stvalentine | May 20, 2008 at 05:01 am
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The most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Britain is about to go on display - evidence of a species unique to Britain that perished in a devastating flood.

The first piece was retrieved from a beach in Dorset in 2000 by David Sole, a former solicitor turned professional fossil collector. "There was a lump of rock about two foot by one foot lodged in fine-shingle sand, and I sensed there was something unusual about it," he recalls.

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