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OK, so no one other than me cna appreciate this, but look at what my firend Emma found:



It may look small, but it's the smallest finger bone, Look at the preservation! This is a mid-Jurassic theropod.

The fascination of a scientific discovery is beyond the looks.

Ewww! It's a moudly old bone! Didn't your mother never told you not to pick up things from the ground?

Where did you found it?

Warspite wrote:Ewww! It's a moudly old bone! Didn't your mother never told you not to pick up things from the ground?

It's a perfectly clean lump of rock, actually.

Where did you found it?

Hanover point, IOW.

InnerBrat wrote:Hanover point, IOW.

OK, how about a quick geography lesson for us non-brits...

Compton Bay:



edit: Just realised the transparency sucks.
The beach near Freshwater

Ah, the left-most bucket. Gotcha! LOL
Interesting, none the less.

thats really cool... i secretly wanted to be a paleontoligist, but my parents would kill me if i did that... stuck with computers

That'd fetch a couple pounds on eBay. Good show.

That's really cool, esp. since theropod fossils are rare. Do you know what species it is?

Are theropods some kind of dinosaur ?

Yes, like Allosaurus or T. rex

evilcat4000 wrote:Are theropods some kind of dinosaur ?

Yeah:

Any of various large carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs of the suborder Theropoda of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, characterized by bipedal locomotion, large jaws, and short forelimbs.

Kintaro wrote:That's really cool, esp. since theropod fossils are rare. Do you know what species it is?

Not a clue, although Steve Hutt is probably hoping it's Neovenator, because it's from very nearly the same horizon. I think the Dinosaur Isle team weer going to head back and see if they could find anything else.

I have a ring just like the one the bone holder is wearing. I love my Celtic rings.

Lord Pounder wrote:I have a ring just like the one the bone holder is wearing. I love my Celtic rings.

That'll be Emma.