paulgdls Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 This is me alongside Dr Emma Nicholls having just found several teeth from the beast. Also, her write up about the dig is below. It was an epic effort by a great team https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/dr-emma-nicholls-helps-to-uncover-rutland-sea-dragon/ 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Ancient Bones Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Thank you Darren, How exciting !! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DE&i Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 25 minutes ago, paulgdls said: This is me alongside Dr Emma Nicholls having just found several teeth from the beast. Also, her write up about the dig is below. It was an epic effort by a great team https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/dr-emma-nicholls-helps-to-uncover-rutland-sea-dragon/ Thank you Paul for stepping in, this epic story is waaaaay to big to cover myself. Link to post Share on other sites
MrR Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Fantastic! Thanks for the link to the real story about this amazing find. What a lucky break for those studying the life and times of such creatures. And great for we that follow and appreciate the work of such experts. I'm guessing that if it was found a little further upland in some bogs, the press would be calling it, "Peat's Dragon". Sorry, I couldn't resist. This is a seriously great discovery. Cheers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
paulgdls Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 2 hours ago, DE&i said: Thank you Paul for stepping in, this epic story is waaaaay to big to cover myself. Thanks for pointing this string out to me Darren. You did way more work on the project than me. I don't know how you kept going digging the trenches and so on for so long. That first day in the Winter must have been a real test of stamina. This is what the backbone looked like when found: 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites
old bones Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 How very exciting! That must have been tough to keep a secret for so long. Well done all the way around! I too, hope that it can remain in the area for all to enjoy. Julianna Link to post Share on other sites
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 The more I read about this, the more alive the excavation is becoming. What a surreal dream it must've been to work on this - it's the stuff of childhood dreams! As you guys know, though, I like my marine reptile teeth... Are there any photographs of the teeth of this specimen that show their morphology that can be shared yet? Really dying to test my hypothesis on the identification of temnodontosaur (and generally ichthyosaur) teeth... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Pagurus Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 A dream come true! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Sjfriend Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 What a great find and report! Congratulations to all involved 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DE&i Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 On 1/10/2022 at 8:24 AM, Bobby Rico said: That’s great I missed this thanks. I hope it goes to New Walk Museum home of The Rutland Dinosaur . Cheers Bobby The plan is to keep it local to Rutland. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DE&i Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon more details will emerge over time, teeth were discovered with the possibility of more inside the plaster jacket block's. I'll let you know teeth information as it filters through. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DE&i Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 In a Digging for Britain exclusive, we join palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax in the middle of the largest artificial lake in the country, Rutland Water. Today, this nature reserve is home to many species of wildlife, but the team here are unearthing evidence of a far more monstrous past. They are painstakingly removing the Jurassic clay to reveal a 180 million-year-old fossil– which they hope will be the largest of its kind ever found in Britain. Link to post Share on other sites
Sjfriend Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Thank you @DE&i for all the info. Hopefully I can pull up the show here (Alaska). Just finished reading all the linked reports here. Loved the excavation write up. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 For those who, like me, don't live in the UK and are therefore not able to watch the "Digging for Britain" episode, but would still like to get a bit more of an impression of how the dig looked and felt, here are two videos I came across - unfortunately without sound (at least for me): Seeing this really took me back to my time doing archaeological fieldwork. Just wish I could've been there, it looks like it was such a great and educational excavation! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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