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Article: New dinosaur is from Hastings.
- Article from:
- Hastings & St. Leonards Observer (St. Leonards-on-Sea, England)
- Article date:
- November 15, 2007
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A new species of dinosaur has been discovered from bones dug up in Hastings.
The remains, found in Ecclesbourne Glen in the early 1890s by a fossil hunter, had sat gathering dust locked in a cabinet in the Natural History Museum.
It was given a brief review by expert palaeontologist Richard Lydekker in the days after it was found but then lay untouched for the next 113 years.
That was until a palaeontology student researching his PhD noticed something distinctive about the bones.
A closer look at the backbone confirmed his suspicions and the new species, the Xenoposeidon, was discovered.
Part of the sauropod family, the ...