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Dinosaurs from Ireland

16-12-2018 4:49am

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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/can-you-find-dinosaurs-in-ireland.html

I really doubt the theropod bone is Megalosaurus, tho, if it's 200 million years old...

Only two dinosaur fossil bones have been found in Ireland, both from the same location on the Country Antrim coast. The bones are from the hind legs of two animals that lived around 200 million years ago: a herbivore called Scelidosaurus and a carnivorous Megalosaurus.

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#2 23-11-2020 12:04am

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Antrim fossils confirmed as dinosaur remains:

https://www.independent.ie/news/study-confirms-bones-found-in-antrim-came-from-dinosaurs-39771589.html

One of them is a theropod and the other a Scelidosaurus, an early armored dinosaur.

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I remember reading one of those week by week Dinosaur magazines and being ****ing devastated when it mentioned, as an aside, that dinosaurs don't get found in Ireland. Take THAT, Dinosaurs!

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