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Southern England is unusually rich in fossil remains – theiguanadon was found at Lewes, the icthyosaur at LymeRegisand the megalosaur at the Isle of Wight.
From the archive, 20 July 1983: Dinosaur "find of the century" 2010
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When that plesiosaur gave his favorite icthyosaur to the tyrannosaur, it changed Slylock forever.
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The Houston exhibition will also feature an icthyosaur "mummy," which has contents of her intestines and four babies preserved inside her body, and the only mummified
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"I learned from the display that she was a working-class girl who had lived in Lyme Regis, which is on the south coast of England, and had been fossil hunting with her father, and one day she and her brother discovered a huge specimen of what turned out to be an icthyosaur, an ancient marine reptile about 200 million years old.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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