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	Dinosaur Isle
		On August 10th 2001 a new museum was opened which provides the space and facilities to properly display and conserve the rich geological collections of the Isle of Wight.
		The new museum, located on Culver Parade, is in the shape of a giant pterodactyl.
		This leads to the large dinosaur gallery, which has exciting displays including the real fossils, skeletal re-constructions, life sized fleshed re-constructions and an animatronic dinosaur.
	www.eduwight.iow.gov.uk /the_lea/otwd/Dinosaur_Isle (129 words)

	Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Isle of Wight has layers of the Vectis and Wealden fossil-bearing beds exposed on the southern half of the island.
		During this time the Isle of Wight, then located on a latitude at which North Africa resides today, had a subtropical environment and was part of a large river valley complex, which ran along the south coast of England to Belgium.
		Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight (The Palaeontological Association, 2001) ISBN 0-901702-72-2, is also the title of a field guide to dinosaurs found on the island, by Darren Naish and David Martill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dinosaurs_of_the_Isle_of_Wight (522 words)

	Dinosaur Isle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dinosaur Isle is a purpose-build dinosaur museum located on the Isle of Wight in southern England.
		The museum was designed by Isle of Wight architects Rainey Petrie Johns in the shape of a giant pterodactyl, it claims to be the first custom built Dinosaur museum in Europe.
		The £2.3 million cost of the museum was provided by Isle of Wight Council and the National Lottery Millennium Commission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dinosaur_Isle (189 words)

	Dinosaur Footprints in Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary beds, Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK - Geology Field Trip Guide
		However, in 1996 a single tridactyl dinosaur footprint was discovered by Dr Jane Francis in the Transition Bed at the very base of the Purbeck Formation near Freshwater on the east side of the peninsula.
		This webpage is a branch of the general Geology of the Isle of Portland webpage, and that should be referred to for background information on the geology of the Purbeck Formation on Portland in which the dinosaur footprints occur.
		The Lower Cretaceous Wealden dinosaurs of the nearby Isle of Wight are well-described by Martill and Naish (2001).
	www.soton.ac.uk /~imw/portdino.htm (10705 words)

	Fossil hunting and palaeontology on the Isle of Wight
		Dinosaurs are, of course, the Island’s most famous fossils with more than twenty species having been found so far and new discoveries coming to light all the time.
		Dinosaur Farm Museum near Brighstone also has good displays of local dinosaur fossils and there is an interesting display, including a Polacanthus skeleton at the Fossil Shop at Blackgang Chine.
		Mammals had taken over from the dinosaurs as the dominant land animals and their bones and teeth can be found together with bones and other remains of the crocodiles, turtles, fish, snails, etc., with which they lived.
	www.wightfarmholidays.co.uk /islandinfo/fossils.html (961 words)

	Dinosaur Island
		In 1992 Steve Hutt, curator of the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, was walking along the cliffs on the south-western side of the Isle of Wight when he spotted what looked like a small fragment of bone.
		Costing £2.7 million, and supported by a lottery grant from the Millennium Commission, Dinosaur Isle is intended to be an imaginative window on the growing number of exciting dinosaur and other geological finds made on the Isle of Wight.
		Dinosaur Isle, which is both a leisure and education attraction, will use around 1,000 of the best specimens from the present collection at Sandown’s geological museum, plus life-size reconstructions and full-scale models.
	www.iwight.com /just_visiting/dinosaur_isle/dinosaur.asp (296 words)

	Britain's Biggest Dinosaur Found
		One fossil - a single neck bone from the 125-130-million-year-old sauropod dinosaur - measures an astonishing three-quarters of a metre in length.
		The long-necked sauropods were the biggest and heaviest group of dinosaurs in existence.
		The world's biggest and heaviest dinosaur is commonly said to be Argentinasaurus, a 37m-long (120ft), 80-100-tonne creature known from South America.
	www.rense.com /general59/britainsbiggestdino.htm (568 words)

	Isle of Wight Attractions, Local Isle of Wight attractions, Isle of Wight, South West, England
		Isle of Wight Attractions in, Isle of Wight
		The Isle of Wight is famous for its dinosaur remains so it’s not surprising to find a couple of dinosaur attractions in the area.
		The Dinosaur Farm Museum is situated in the Brighstone area, the area where the biggest dinosaur finds were discovered on the island.
	www.isleofwightswebsite.co.uk /attraction/index.htm (592 words)

	A Brief History of Dinosaur Collecting on the Isle of Wight.
		Dinosaur beginnings, their breathtaking evolutionary success and eventual demise is a fascinating story which is still unfolding.
		Dinosaur bone, footprints and footcasts represent the remains of long dead, land based reptiles.
		The Isle of Wight proved to be a major source for the harvesting of dinosaur bones.
	www.wightonline.co.uk /dino/pages/dinosaur_article_2.html (612 words)

	Dinosaur Island
		All island dinosaurs are from the earliest part of the Cretaceous period (145 - 65 million years ago).
		It was a bird-footed, beaked, bipedal, herbivorous dinosaur approx 6-10m long, 4-5m high, weighing approx 4.5 tones, (thats 4,500kg - or over 3 x the weight of a vauxhall Vectra!).
		Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown has around 1,000 specimens, plus life-size reconstructions and full-scale models.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /stevetearle/Granary/html/dinosaur_island.html (575 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Dinosaurs of The Isle of Wight - A664571
		Dinosaurs of The Isle of Wight - Dinosaur Hunters
		Not only were many of the earliest dinosaur discoveries in the world made on the Isle of Wight, but also Britain's largest dinosaur dig, featured in the BBC's documentary series 'Live From Dinosaur Island', took place entirely on the Isle of Wight.
		Sadly, in the Victorian era, many of the Isle of Wight's finest dinosaur finds were removed from the Island on which they had rested for 120 million years only to become re-buried in dusty vaults beneath the Natural History Museum in London, amongst countless millions of other abandoned exhibits.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A664571 (1524 words)

	Product Detail - VisitBritain
		Dinosaur Isle is open all year round and as well as life-sized displays of dinosaurs there are temporary themed exhibitions and a working laboratory where visitors can watch experts work on the latest fossil finds.
		A popular addition to a visit to Dinosaur Isle is to join a guided fossil hunt (which must be pre-booked) to the nearby rich fossil beach of Yaverland.
		This muli-million pound attraction and the wealth of dinosaur fossils found on the Isle of Wight firmly establishes this island as the dinosaur capital of Europe.
	www.visitbritain.com /vb3-cs-CZ/productsearch/productdetail.aspx?productID=135020&icID=2&backUrl=/vb3-cs-CZ/destinationguides/england/South_East/Destinations/sandown.aspx (208 words)

	100 YEARS OF T-REX AT DINOSAUR MUSEUM - Isle of Wight News
		Sandown Dinosaur Isle is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the naming of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
		Couch potatoes on the Isle of Wight are being encouraged to burn off their excess calories and cholesterol.
		Isle of Wight Council has now made a Compulsory Purchase Order on the land it wants, to allow repairs to a major road damaged by subsidence.
	www.solent.tv /pageviewer.aspx?page=S632581635534375000 (250 words)

	DinoWight - A history of Fossil Hunters on the Isle of Wight
		The Isle of Wight has been involved in the history of dinosaur palaeontology since 1829, when the first Iguanodon material was described by Dean William Buckland from Yaverland Point, near Sandown.
		described less controversial dinosaur footmarks in 1851, also tridactyl and presumably Iguanodon, on the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight between Brook and Brighstone.
		Isle of Wight dinosaurs became very neglected in the first half of the twentieth Century, indeed no new species were found until 1996, with Neovenator.
	www.geocities.com /dinowight/history.html (517 words)

	DAYS OUT Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles
		Bits of bone are regularly found on the beaches and the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown has a colection of international importance-and is thoroughly family-friendly to boot.
		The colection sensibly majors on the dinosaurs that once roamed this island, with ful-size reconstructions as wel as fossils ranging from huge vertebrae to toothed jaws and long leg bones.
		On our Fossil Walk a piece of dinosaur rib bone was found, and the day before, four dinosaur bones were discovered as wel as a large prehistoric crocodile tooth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20060423/ai_n16212255 (690 words)

	Independent Online Edition > UK
		Bits of bone are regularly found on the beaches and the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown has a collection of international importance - and is thoroughly family-friendly to boot.
		On our Fossil Walk a piece of dinosaur rib bone was found, and the day before, four dinosaur bones were discovered as well as a large prehistoric crocodile tooth.
		An interactive map shows where the Isle of Wight's five main dinosaurs were found, along with a second map indicating their global spread.
	travel.independent.co.uk /uk/article359721.ece (700 words)

	Dinosaur Isle - Isle of Wight
		Dinosaur Isle is an impressive, £2.7 million lottery-funded exhibition set up in Sandown on the Isle of Wight.
		It is fitting that Megalosaurus is the first dinosaur that greets you as you enter the main hall of dinosaur isle.
		The hotel we stayed at was in Sandown and the island is certainly not short of accommodation.
	www.gavinrymill.com /dinosaurs/dinosaur-isle-photos.html (240 words)

	ISLE OF WIGHT Attractions - Museums & Galleries - Tourist Net UK Guide
		Whilst the aim of the displays is to introduce visitors to the work of designers and craftsmen of the past, a central objective of the collection is that, as far as possible, the enjoyment of sailing.
		It is situated in a converted 19th Century brewery warehouse complex pleasantly located at the head of the River Medina in the centre of Newport.
		Founded in 1973 by International Glassmaker Michael Harris, Isle of Wight Studio Glass is readily recognised for the highly imaginative and original approach used in developing this magical material.
	www.touristnetuk.com /SO/ISLEW/attractions/museums.htm (873 words)

	Dinosaur Isle
		Dinosaur Isle is Britain's first dinosaur attraction just over the sea wall in Sandown, Isle of Wight.
		You will see dinosaur skeletons as they are found by the fossil hunters and can watch volunteers preparing the latest exciting finds.
		At Dinosaur Isle there are many hands on activities to try and you will be able to encounter the lost world of Dinosaurs that once roamed freely across the Isle of Wight.
	www.westhighlandwhite.co.uk /children/dinosaurisle.html (157 words)

	Velociraptor teeth discovered on the Isle of Wight
		The Isle of Wight’s Dinosaur Isle Museum has recently acquired five teeth from previously unknown dinosaurs related to the Velociraptors made famous in the Jurassic Park films.
		Curator of Dinosaur Isle, Martin Munt said, “The large size of the Isle of Wight teeth suggests an animal that may have been comparable in size to Utahraptor an extremely large dromaeosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah.
		The Isle of Wight animal is likely to have been a slender, fast moving predator perhaps as long as six metres.
	www.iwight.com /education/velociraptor.asp (355 words)

	Headless Dino Skeleton Puzzles Palaeontologists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The dinosaur is a type of armoured dinosaur and might be a Nodosaurus, though could possibly be a species that hasn't been found before.
		The dinosaur was about four metres long and would have had heavy armour plates on its body and a small, narrow head.
		Back in the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaur was alive, the area of Kent where the bones were found would have been under the sea.
	www.show.me.uk /site/news/teachers/pDinosaurs/STO167.html (355 words)

	DINOSAUR
		Finds of dinosaurs, and the much later early fossil mammals of the Cenozoic period, have played a part in world culture for far longer than you might think.
		For the simple reason that 99% of dinosaur bones and other fossils are found lying on the surface where they have been weathered out.
		Many of the UK dinosaur fossils for sale were found on the Isle of Wight's beach and would have been lost to the sea if they hadn't been collected.
	www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk /dinosaur.htm (2265 words)

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		He broke his leg and was airlifted to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, to recover while others recovered the broken blocks containing the dinosaur footprints which are now in the collections of the Hunterian Museum.
		Although reported in the press as being from the tail of a large theropod, it is actually from the tail of a sauropod akin to Cetiosaurus.
		My hope is that material that has disappeared from Scotland’s Dinosaur Isle will eventually be made available for research, and that collecting on behalf of the Scottish museums continues to reap rewards, as it has done over the last 10 years.
	www.gla.ac.uk /hunterian/collections/museum/dinosaur/dinosaurs2.shtml (501 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Island celebrates its dinosaur past
		The first purpose-built dinosaur museum in the UK opens its doors to the public this week.
		Called Dinosaur Isle, the new museum celebrates the rich fossil-hunting grounds of the Isle of Wight.
		It is intended to be an imaginative window on the growing number of exciting dinosaur and other geological finds made on the Isle of Wight.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1477937.stm (317 words)

	Dinosaur Articles 2001- 2006
		Britain's biggest dinosaur found - Isle of Wight BBC - November 2004 The long-necked sauropods were the biggest and heaviest group of dinosaurs in existence.
		No fossil evidence was found of feathers, but Wolfe noted that similar dinosaurs from Asia were found with feathers and speculated that this one had "a loose gaggle of feathers around the head and along the spine, back of the arms and legs".
		Fossilized remains of a gargantuan plant-eating dinosaur, the second most massive animal ever to walk the Earth, have been unearthed in a desert oasis in Egypt at a site that eons ago was a lush coastal paradise, researchers said on Thursday.
	www.crystalinks.com /dinoarticles.html (2135 words)

	Isle Of Wight Explored with our private holiday caravan owners
		The Isle of Wight boasts many popular seaside resorts with 13 award winning beaches, picturesque villages with thatched cottages, steep white cliffs and beautiful countryside.
		Such is the island’s beauty that a number of personalities have chosen to become Overners (residents) on the Isle of Wight, though Sheila Hancock and Jeremy Irons are both Caulkheads (born there).
		East Cowes - A museum of Isle of Wight history in the medieval great hall of Carisbrooke Castle where Charles I was imprisoned.
	www.directholidayhomes.co.uk /isle_region.html (294 words)

	DinoWight - Links
		Another unofficial Isle of Wight website, which has some information on local collectors and the dinosaurs, although it was written many years ago, and misses some more recent stuff out.
		The website of the Bristol Dinosaur Project, a project dedicated to the preparation, preservation and study of Thecodontosaurus, a prosauropod dinosaur found in Bristol, Somerset, and share their knowledge and skills with the public at events in and around Bristol.
		Darren Naish is probably the biggest expert on dinosaurs that I know, and his blog is one of the best places to find out all about news in the world of vertebrate palaeontology.
	www.geocities.com /dinowight/links.html (1323 words)

	Sandown Dinosaur Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Off to one side is a dinosaur model that Catrina called 'red' because it has 'blood' on it.
		By November, now she's 3, she was complaining that a collectors fair being held in the museum meant that 'they had turned the batteries off' and 'put a table in the way' of this model, which was just sitting there.
		Another small pleasure was the cover of the Summer 2001 Southern Vectis bus timetable which is a cartoon, also featuring the museum and the humourous chaos that might be caused if the dinosaurs were let loose on the Sandown seafront.
	www.hamble.demon.co.uk /dinosaur.html (456 words)

	Games: X-Isle: Dinosaur Island
		-Isle: Dinosaur Island is an educational demo that leverages the technology and art of the upcoming title X-Isle published by Ubisoft.
		We are now able to feature very detailed vast landscapes and even more detailed dinosaurs and have both realistically interacting together; graphics like these are only possible with the new cutting-edge features from the GeForce3 chip.
		X-Isle: Dinosaur Island and CryENGINE feature state-of-the-art technologies such as Vertex and Pixel Shaders, per-pixel lighting and volumetric shadowing in real-time, bump-mapping, detail-texturing, real-time dynamic reflection and refraction (predator) effects, hardware hierarchical skeletal animations, and many other features.
	www.nvidia.com /object/dinoisle.html (240 words)

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