{"id":18168,"date":"2016-12-02T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:51:02","slug":"waless-newest-dinosaur-is-back-on-display-at-national-museum-cardiff-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/waless-newest-dinosaur-is-back-on-display-at-national-museum-cardiff-today","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#039;s newest dinosaur is back on display at National Museum Cardiff today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The skeleton of the new found Welsh dinosaur will be displayed to the public today.<\/h2>\n<p>The fossils contained in\u00a0four blocks of rock will be on display in a showroom of \u00a0the Main Hall at <a href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/cardiff\/\">National Museum Cardiff<\/a> until\u00a031 December 2016.<br \/>\n.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p>The new Welsh dinosaur is a completely new species,\u00a0previously unknown to scientists, making this discovery even more exciting.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18236\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18236 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_2004-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_2004\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18236 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_2004-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_2004\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript> Children were cheerful to see the new Welsh dinosaur.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely an exciting news for the whole Wales, even for the world, and especially for children. You know, kids love dinosaurs,&#8221; said Brian Smiths, 67, who brought his little granddaughter here to see the dinosaur.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18238\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_200720161202-140833-625x494.jpg\" alt=\"img_200720161202-140833\" width=\"625\" height=\"494\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_200720161202-140833-625x494.jpg\" alt=\"img_200720161202-140833\" width=\"625\" height=\"494\" \/><\/noscript> A visitor is taking pictures of rocks containing fossils.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe new Welsh dinosaur has been officially given the name Dracoraptor haniigani which means &#8220;Hanigan&#8217;s Dragon Thief&#8221;. It was a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, although it lived about 130 million years earlier.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18231\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18231 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_1957-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1957\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18231 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_1957-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1957\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript> Dracoraptor haniigani: the Hanigan&#8217;s Dragon Thief<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn 2014, brothers Nick and Rob Hanigan made the discovery of lifetime when they went regular fossil hunting in the Penarth erea. They found several loose blocks and recognized that some of them contained pieces of fossilized bone. Examination was then carried out to identify the mysterious creature. The teeth and bones suggested that the exciting discovery was indeed a new dinosaur!<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18234\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18234 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_1980-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1980\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18234 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_1980-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1980\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript> The brothers digging rocks to find if there are fossils contained.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn August 2015, a student called Sam Davies found the fossilized bones from the foot of the this dinosaur and donated to the National Museum Cardiff.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18233\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-18233 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_1969-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1969\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18233 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/12\/IMG_1969-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1969\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript> The foot of the newest Welsh dinosaur<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNational Museum Cardiff aims to use information within the fossils which represent the diversity of Welsh geology to reveal the evolution of Wales and tries to build a image of how life has evolved on Earth for future generations.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217;s newest dinosaur is back on display at National Museum Cardiff today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":18290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wales&#039;s newest dinosaur is back on display at National Museum Cardiff today! 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