Jurassic Coast
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| Locations | United Kingdom |
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| Criteria | Natural: viii |
| Did you know | The Jurassic Coast is made of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous cliffs, spanning 185 million years of geological history. |
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| ID | 1031970 |
About Jurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. It stretches from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset, a distance of about 96 miles, and was inscribed on the World Heritage List in mid-December 2001.
Jurassic Coast cliff falls tempt fossil hunters
... But on one stretch of Dorset s Jurassic Coast, major cliff falls are soon followed by an influx of fossil hunters, creating a headache for those tasked with keeping people safe...
Bibby Stockholm: Hoax listing for asylum barge on travel website
... The hoax listing on the website described the Bibby Stockholm as having a garden and offering views of Dorset s Jurassic Coast...
Hemel Hempstead boy finds megalodon shark tooth at Walton-on-the-Naze
... Jason said he and his son go to Walton-on-the-Naze to go fossil hunting once a year and also to the Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile (153km) long stretch of coastline in southern England...
Jurassic Coast: Large landslip at Seatown Beach
...Visitors to Dorset s Jurassic Coast have been warned after a large section of cliff collapsed on to a beach...
David Popa: Artist unveils dinosaur gallery for new David Attenborough series
... Popa used natural surroundings to create his art and, for this collection, went to the Jurassic Coast in the UK, Utah and Finland to make large-scale dinosaur portraits...
Royal Society: Four incredible objects that made science history
... Victorian dinosaursDinosaur hunter Gideon Mantell sent in detailed drawings from discoveries in 1849 he made of dinosaur fossils on the Jurassic Coast, in southern England...
By-election results: Six takeaways for Tories from the doorsteps
... 2/ Farmers on collision course with governmentAgriculture shapes the whole landscape of this constituency, from Exmoor to the Blackdown Hills to the Jurassic Coast...
Tiverton and Honiton: Can the Lib Dems turn a true-blue seat yellow?
... Sprawling from the fringes of Exmoor to a stretch of the Jurassic Coast, this cluster of villages and market towns was seen until recently as an extremely safe Conservative seat...
Hemel Hempstead boy finds megalodon shark tooth at Walton-on-the-Naze
By Kate ScotterBBC News, Essex
A 13-year-old boy has found a shark tooth believed to have belonged to a giant prehistoric creature.
Ben discovered the 10cm-long (4in) tooth at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex during a Summer Holiday weekend break.
The teenager's dad, Jason, said his son was " over the moon" with The Find and knew The Second he saw it " it was something".
Essex Wildlife Trust said it was a megalodon tooth and intact ones, like The One found, were a " rare find".
Jason and his son were on a weekend break from their home in Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire especially to go searching for fossils.
They arrived on Friday Evening and by Sunday Morning had already clocked up 16 miles (26km) of walking along the coast.
They were up at The Crack of dawn on Sunday and were down at The Beach first thing when Ben found The Giant tooth under rocks at about 07:00 BST.
Jason, 50, said: " We could just see The Edge of it, sticking out, and Ben knew straightaway it was something and pulled it out of The Sand . "
The pair took their find to Essex Wildlife Trust's Discovery Centre at Walton-on-the-Naze where they were told it was a megalodon tooth.
Jason said he and his son go to Walton-on-the-Naze to go fossil hunting once a year and also to the Jurassic Coast , a 95-mile (153km) Long Stretch of coastline in southern England.
He Said Ben wants to be a palaeontologist when he is older and The Giant tooth was a " great addition" to his collection.
Essex Wildlife Trust said The Tooth would be from 20 million years old to 3. 6 million.
It said several had been found at The Naze but more commonly they were fragments of The Teeth .
The megalodonThe cartilaginous fish (whose skeleton is made of cartilage rather than bone) was a carnivore and had no known predators
Source of news: bbc.com
