Mantell’s early collection consists of many fossils from the Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous of Sussex, including fish such as chondrichthyans (represented by shark teeth) and actinopterygians.The first ...

Dinosaur teeth found with the help of a retired quarry worker have revealed how the fearsome tyrannosaur once roamed Bexhill-on-Sea. Research led by the University of Southampton found that several ...

East Sussex was home to various predatory dinosaurs 135 million years ago, including the first identified tyrannosaurs of the ...

“Many years later I started work at Ashdown and began looking for fossils. I’m happy with tiny fish scales or huge thigh bones, although the preservation of the dinosaur teeth really stands ...

Exquisitely preserved fossils ... the Cretaceous period appear to solve a long-standing mystery around how it hunted and where it fits into the shark evolutionary tree. Fossil teeth from sharks ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution.

“Meat-eating dinosaurs – properly called theropods – are rare in the Cretaceous ... fossils. I’m happy with tiny fish scales or huge thigh bones, although the preservation of the dinosaur ...

"Meat-eating dinosaurs -- properly called theropods -- are rare in the Cretaceous ... fossils. I'm happy with tiny fish scales or huge thigh bones, although the preservation of the dinosaur teeth ...

But they were still affected. Fossil teeth show that the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous killed off many of the largest species of shark. Only the smallest and deep-water species that fed ...