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new study of fossilised bones reveals that dinosaurs roamed our shores about 200 million years ago. The bones, which were found along Co Antrim’s eastern coast in the 1980s, are the only dinosaur remains to have ever been recorded on the island of Ireland.
Since their discovery, palaeontologists had long suspected that they were of dinosaur origin but now dinosaur experts have finally identified them as such.
“People knew about them but they had never been formally described. Now it’s official. We know what these dinosaurs are,” says Dr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeontologist at National MuseumsNorthern Ireland and lead author on the study. ....

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