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Thirty years ago a teacher picked up what looked like a piece of black stone from a beach strewn with dark basalt pebbles on the east coast of Co Antrim in Northern Ireland.
A year later, another shape in the gravel caught his attention. Again, he slipped it into his pocket.
It turned out he had an extraordinary eye, with these two specimens now confirmed as the only two dinosaur bones ever found on the island of Ireland. They were discovered by Roger Byrne, an amateur fossil hunter who died in 2007.
A new analysis, published in Proceedings of the Association of Geologists, showed that the earliest fossil was part of a femur, or upper leg bone, of a four-legged plant eater called
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