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Futureproof Extra: New Dinosaurs Discovered on the Isle of Wight

Our search for prehistoric fossils can take us all around the world. Usually, they are found in p...

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07.30 14 Oct 2021


Futureproof Extra: New Dinosaurs Discovered on the Isle of Wight



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07.30 14 Oct 2021


Our search for prehistoric fossils can take us all around the world.

Usually, they are found in places that we western Europeans might consider exotic - the sparsely populated regions of China, North America, or Argentina, for instance.

But there is one place, a lot closer to home, that has proven very fruitful indeed for fossil hunters and they may have just discovered two entirely new species there.

Dr. Dave Hone, Paleontology Lecturer at Queen Mary, the University of London specializing in dinosaurs and pterosaurs joined Jonathan to discuss.

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