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Newsletter #199 Fossils: Top Fossil Hunting Sites in the Netherlands

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Dec 14, 2025
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Fossils: Top Fossil Hunting Sites in the Netherlands

Perhaps you think that finding fossils is something for far-off lands: a Tyrannosaurus in Colorado. But closer to home, on the Jurassic Coast of Southern England, Mary Anning found a skeleton of an ichthyosaur – a long-extinct marine reptile – back in 1811, when she was just 12 years old.

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