Scotish stegosaur

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Scottish family finds unique 
dinosaur bones

  
LONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A family out fossil-hunting 
on a Scottish beach in 1997 uncovered the elbow joint of 
a previously unknown dinosaur. 

On Saturday the Times newspaper said that after 18 months 
of research, a Glasgow-based palaeontologist had announced 
the bones were from an armour-plated Stegosaur of a species 
older than any previously known. 

``This is the first bone ever found in the world of this particular 
dinosaur,'' said palaeontologist Neil Clark. Edinburgh banker 
Colin Aitken and his family found the 175-million-year- old heads 
of the radius and ulna embedded in sandstone on a beach on 
the Isle of Skye. 

``It is unique. When you think that there are 800 different types 
of dinosaur, to find a new one is immensely exciting,'' Clark told 
the Times. 

The ``Skye Stegosaur'' has caused a stir in America too. When 
the dinosaur was alive, Skye was attached to the North American 
continent and the species had previously been suspected only from 
footprints preserved in fossilised mud in Wyoming.