News Source: The Scotsman
| 27 days ago
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. Bones of the Thecondontosaurus antiquus – ancient socket-toothed dinosaur – were...
News Source: The Observer
| 27 days ago
Britain's oldest dinosaur will at last be revealed, after being entombed in rock for more than 210m years. A specimen of Thecondontosaurus antiquus was discovered by excavators at a quarry in Bristol in 1834, and at the time was only the fourth...
News Source: ITN
| 27 days ago
A rock specimen, discovered at Tytherington Quarry in South Gloucestershire in the 1970s, contains the fossilised remains of the so-called "Bristol Dinosaur". Thecondontosaurus antiquus is also one of the oldest in the world. Scientists at the...