Czech Science First ever dinosaur bone discovered in Czech Republic
In March this year, Michal Moucka, a doctor from the town of Kutna Hora took his sons to a nearby quarry to look for fossils of small ancient sea animals. Unexpectedly, the father and sons returned home with a priceless find - the first dinosaur bone ever discovered on Czech territory. As palaeontology is Mr Moucka's hobby, he immediately contacted experts from Charles University in Prague, who confirmed that the 40-centimetre bone comes from a specimen from the family Iguanodontidae that lived around 95 million years ago. Such a find is unique in this country because at the time when dinosaurs inhabited the Earth, the territory of what is now the Czech Republic was covered by a sea. The animal whose fossil has now been unearthed probably lived on one of many small islands in that sea, and that may be why it never reached the giant proportions of some of its relatives living inland. Professor Oldrich Fejfar is a palaeontologist from Prague's Charles University. He is working on the team of experts who are examining the fossil.
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