People often come across coins, shells and trash cans, but a teacher from Northern Ireland made a discovery that will go down in history.
The mystery revolves around the remains until a team of researchers from the University of Portsmouth and Queen’s University Belfast confirmed that they are fossils of dinosaur bones.
“This is a very significant discovery,” Mike Sims, a paleontologist at the National Museum NI, who led the team of researchers, said in a news release on Tuesday. “The rarity of such fossils here is because most of Ireland’s rocks are the wrong age of dinosaurs, either too old or too young, to confirm the existence of dinosaurs on this shore is almost impossible.”
“Finding Irish dinosaurs may seem like a daunting task, but, nonetheless, many potential candidates have been identified and described here for the first time,” the article says.
Robert Smith, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth, and Professor David Martell have analyzed the bone fragments, using high-resolution 3D digital models of the remains, produced by Dr. Pat from Queen’s University Belfast. Performed by Patrick Collins.
The original researchers believed that the bones belonged to the same animal, but later determined that they belonged to two different dinosaurs.
“Analyzing the shape and internal structure of the bones, we realized that they belonged to two very different animals,” Smith said in a news release.
“One is very ga ense and strong, characteristic of armored plant eater. The other is thin, bone-thin walls and characteristics found only in fast-moving two-legged predatory dinosaurs called theropods.”
According to the researchers, both fossils were fragments of animal bones. A four-legged plant-eater named Scalidosaurus was part of the plain. The second was the part of the tibia that is associated with the same two-legged carnivore as the sarcosaurus.
According to the journal article, the beach where the fossils have been found is encased in round pieces of basalt and white lime. It is noted that the residues in that area are usually scattered and heavily reduced.
“The two dinosaur fossils found by Roger Byrne may have drifted into the ocean, alive or dead, where they were buried and fossilized, they sank off the Jurassic coast,” Sims said.
This discovery helps to shed light on the life of dinosaurs that wandered millions of years ago.
“Sledidosaurus fluctuates at sea level, and I’m starting to think it would be a coastal animal, perhaps eating coastal beaches like sea gua,” Martil said.
The Ulster Museum, which is closed due to a coronavirus ban, plans to display the bones when those restrictions are lifted, the news release said.
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