Walking in footsteps of dinosaurs

NO dinosaur remains have been found in Ireland, or so I thought.

However, on a visit to Belfast’s Ulster Museum this month I was shown two pieces of fossilised bone, found by a teacher in County Antrim 20 years ago.

According to Dr Mike Simms, curator of palaeontology at the museum, one of them is from the leg of a bi-pedal meat-eater. The other belonged to a vegetarian known as a scelidosaurus.