Re: Scotish stegosaur

["Martin Barnett" <martin.barnett3@virgin.net>]

There is also an article in this week's new scientist - 11th September - on
the subject (sorry if anyone's already mentioned this) - it's not a big
article, but there is one nonetheless.


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From: <Keith90291@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 7:36 AM
Subject: Scotish stegosaur


> 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.