Jurassic Britain Was a 'Dinosaur Paradise' With Over 100 Different Species Roaming the UK
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[quote]More than 100 different species of dinosaur once roamed Britain including three cousins of America's top predator the Tyrannosaurus rex, a palaeontologist has said in his new book.
But the UK's rich reptilian past has largely been overlooked in popular culture, palaeontologist Dean Lomax has claimed, despite Britain once being a "dinosaur paradise".
British dinosaurs included stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods and gigantic sauropods, one of which may be the largest dinosaur found in Europe.
At least three different types of tyrannosaur - carnivorous theropods which stood on two legs – also hunted in the British Isles, but “only passing comments” have been made in British records, Mr Lomax said.
"The term Dinosauria, meaning 'terrible lizard', was conceived by the British palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen almost 200 years ago for fossils found in England," he told Phys.org.
"Sadly, when most people are asked to name a dinosaur, the chances are they would give a foreign example, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, even though the British Isles was a veritable dinosaur paradise."[/quote]
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[quote]A scene reconstruction during the Early Cretaceous, represented by fossils found on the Isle of Wight taken from the book, Dinosaurs Of The British Isles[/quote]
I want to go back in time and live with the dinosaurs. If course I will be bringing an AA12 with me.
Did they have their own Dinosaur BNP?
[QUOTE=Moustacheman;45287730]Did they have their own Dinosaur BNP?[/QUOTE]
Yes, but it wasn't very popular and was dissolved around 65 million years ago.
"UK's rich reptilian past"
The UK is still full of rich reptilians, they control the country after all.
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/16/charlie-brooker-cameron-a-lizard[/url]