Dorset Dog-Discovered 'Dinosaur'

Plesiosaurs were marine reptiles, paddling around our coasts some 200 million years ago. These reptiles lived at the same time as the 'dinosaurs' but belong to a different group. A dog, walking with its owner, discovered an unusual 3-D plesiosaur fossil on a Lyme Regis (Dorset) beach (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/16/raffle-dog-rare-plesiosaur-fossil-find-dorset-display). Plesiosaur fossils are usually squashed flat, so the group of 750 fossilised bones was a real find. The skeleton has now been extracted, cleaned and mounted, with one or two missing replacements. This plesiosaur can now be viewed, free of charge, in the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre in darkest Dorset!