Tuesday, 27 October 2026

Fossils from brickworks reveal new dinosaur species that roamed England's wetlands 125 million years ago

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Fossils from brickworks reveal new dinosaur species that roamed England's wetlands 125 million years ago

“A new dinosaur species, Paludohadros proudlovii, has been identified from fossils discovered in a Surrey brickworks in 2001. The creature was an iguanodontian known for its distinctive thumb spikes.”

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