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The Rutland Ichthyosaur: Digging up a ‘Dragon’
12 December:7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Talk by Dr. Emma Nicholls, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Abstract:
The full-scale excavation in 2021 uncovered the largest near-complete reptile
skeleton ever found in Britain. The animal nicknamed the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’,
would have been around 10m long, in life, and is thought to be the first confirmed
record of its species, Temnodontosaurus trigonodont, found anywhere in the world
outside of Germany. In this lecture we will hear about the highs, lows, blood, sweat
and plaster, of the dig.
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