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Lottery grant to help rescue dino

Professor Mike Benton from the University of Bristol says a £295,000 Heritage Lottery grant will save the bones of a dinosaur found in South Gloucestershire.

Over the next three years it is hoped enough bones will be recovered to make a complete skeleton, which could then be displayed in the city's new museum.

The dinosaur, a Thecodontosaurus, has been encased in rock at Tytherington for some 210 million years.

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