Several exciting new finds have been made in the United Kingdom in recent years. Following spring storms in early 2014, brothers and amateur fossil hunters Nick and Rob Hanigan made a thrilling find on Lavernock beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, southern Wales. Following the collapse of some cliffs, a series of blocks with unusual bones had been exposed. Hours of work yielded five slabs of rock with animal bones, which the pair carried back to their car. They spent almost a year carefully preparing the specimen to uncover as much as possible, before donating it to the National Museum of Wales in
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