4 hours agoShareSaveChris MooreThis “sword dragon” was discovered in 2001 by fossil hunter Chris Moore and then acquired by the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada where it took more than 15 years to be fully analysed. “I don’t wish to blow my own ichthyosaur trumpet but I have found a few of them,” Mr Moore said on a video call from Dorset. The actually number he’s unearthed is somewhere in the region of 15, with several of them, like the “sword dragon”, turning out to be new species. Mr Moore says he is planning to celebrate the new discovery but has yet to decide exactly how. “Champagne or a mug of tea, I’m not sure which yet,” he says.
