Photo Gallery Jurassic Coast
A rich graveyard for dinosaurs in England's soft southern cliffs yielded the first fossils to seriously challenge creationism in the 19th century -- even before Darwin.
The Golden Cap coastline, part of southwest England's fragile "Jurassic Coast," is soft and unstable and therefore rich in fossil discoveries.
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Lizard-fish similar to this Dolichorhynchops -- from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pennsylvania -- have emerged from the English cliffs.
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Briton Chris Moore is a modern-day fossil hunter. He bristles that an early predecessor, Mary Anning, still goes under-recognized for her work. As a 12-year-old girl she discovered the first "lizard fish" along the Jurassic Coast, and went on to be an important but villified paleontologist.
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