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Thursday, 26th November 2009

Dinosaurs and prehistoric life

Remains of Britain's 'First' dinosaur - Thecondontosaurus antiquus - to be unearthed THE remains of Britain's oldest known dinosaur are to be excavated almost 40 years after they were first discovered, a team of researchers announced yesterday.

In pictures: Fossilised skull shows power of monster predator THE fossilised skull of a giant "sea monster" has been discovered off Dorset's Jurassic Coast. It comes from a pliosaur, a ferocious predator which lived in the oceans 150 million years ago.

Did an American dinosaur swim over the sea to Skye 170 million years ago? A THREE-TOED dinosaur which once roamed the Isle of Skye may have been the same species as one whose prints have been found in the Red Gulch mountains in Wyoming, paleontologists said yesterday.

Big dinosaurs carried their heads high, say scientists THE largest dinosaurs held their heads up high and not out in front of them as depicted by top museums around the world, according to new research published today.

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