‘The whole embryo was there’: expert makes rare find on Sheffield museum opening day
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#62H6W)
Dean Lomax identifies probably oldest known vertebrate embryo from UK at Yorkshire Natural History Museum
A 180m-year-old fossil has quickly become one of the star exhibits at the UK's newest museum, after it was identified as probably the oldest known example of a vertebrate embryo found in Britain.
The Yorkshire Natural History Museum in Sheffield opened on Saturday, the ribbon cut by the palaeontologist and ichthyosaur expert Dean Lomax using a baryonyx claw.
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