Ok...let’s take it all back to where it all began. These are pictures (courtesy of Alan Dawn’s image archive) of when we first went to the Star Pit at Whittlesey, in response to a couple of bones being found by Matt and Marcus. It was the 22nd October,...
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Ok...let’s take it all back to where it all began. These are pictures (courtesy of Alan Dawn’s image archive) of when we first went to the Star Pit at Whittlesey, in response to a couple of bones being found by Matt and Marcus. It was the 22nd October, 2001. This is me and Dave Martill prospecting the bed where the bones were coming out of the cliff. I can remember finding 13 recognisable Leedsichthys bones coming out of an 8 metre stretch (which you can see us measuring out) of that cliff that day. And we started to wonder if maybe - just maybe - we’d found ‘a complete one’ - the first ever. But ooo - just look at the size of the cliff sitting on top of that fish...
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