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Calling dinosaur lovers - you won't believe this new find!

Marianne72

First, the oldest known ankylosaurus or 'punk dinosaur' but this will blow your mind even more - a dinosaur with a neck longer than a cricket pitch. If I ever longed for some decent models to run across my hearth, these two would be first on my list.

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  • When I was a teen I used to sometimes ride my bicycle a few miles to Crystal Palace park in south east London. The have the old (170 year old) Victorian dinosaur models. They have recently been restored and re-painted. 

    They were made in line with thinking at the time, which is no longer correct.

    I have an idea some of my great grandparents visited the crystal palace before it burnt down in 1936, but I am not sure if that is a reliable memory. The grounds were still there, including parts or a motor racing circuit used in the 60's I think, which was good to cycle on.

    I have also visited Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah Colorado border. The visitor centre constructed over the quarry has an amazing collection of bones left in situ in the rock.

    I used to have some fossilized shark teeth and a 6-8" long plaster cast of a claw from one of the meat eating dinosaurs. I am not sure where that went. I've seen fossilized sequoias too. I also have a metasequoia tree I grew from seed, which is a type of tree that was thought extinct till they found it in China in 1941, it was around with the dinosaurs. Maybe one if then ate it. Monkey puzzle trees were also around at the same time.

    I also hiked up to the Burgess Shale in Yogo National Park in British Columbia, Canada. A fossil site from the Cambrian explosion, but there is nothing much to see, although the view and scenery, and emerald lake, are lovely. I saw it on a David Attenborough program and wanted to see it myself.

    We only know what has been eroded out of the rocks. I sometimes wonder how much there is that we don't know and have no way to access, still buried deep underground.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    That must have been amazing to see those sights yourself!

    I always thought when I was young there wouldn't be anything left to find, so I thought you couldn't be a palaeontologist when I was grown up, but they are still making discoveries which is amazing!

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Lots of new discoveries from China. They have additional species and new types.

    I think in particular the feathered ones.

    I saw a comment that we perhaps have found about 10% of the dinosaurs,  but I can't see how that can be anything other than just a guess.

    But potentially still lots more for people to know and find. The main thing I would struggle with is how slow it us to dig them out. I wouldn't have the patience.

    There was a tyrannosaurus sold at auction 2 weeks ago for $50m. I think it took them 2-3 years to dig it all up.