Rarely, amateur fossil-hunters strike it lucky. Most of these instances involve dinosaurs. In 1983 William Walker was searching a clay pit, as he often did. A plumber and part-time quarry worker, at a pit in Surrey he noticed a claw-like fossil – a gigantic one that measured more than 30cm/12in. Local experts informed London'sNatural History Museum, and staff soon determined that plenty more remains were at the site. The result was Baryonyx walkeri, 'Walker's heavy claw', a meat-eating dinosaur some 10m/33ft long. Baryonyx was a different kind of carnivore from others known at the time, and so of
tremendous scientific value.
Rarely, amateur fossil-hunters strike it lucky. Most of these instances involve dinosaurs. In 1983 William Walker was searching a clay pit, as he often did. A plumber and part-time quarry worker, at a pit in Surrey he noticed a claw-like fossil – a gigantic one that measured more than 30cm/12in. Local experts informed London'sNatural History Museum, and staff soon determined that plenty more remains were at the site. The result was Baryonyx walkeri, 'Walker's heavy claw', a meat-eating dinosaur some 10m/33ft long. Baryonyx was a different kind of carnivore from others known at the time, and so of tremendous scientific value.
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