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Island Museum Build ‘Big Iggy’

Dec 8th, 2009 | By Carolyn Keene | Isle of Wight News From The Island Pulse

BBC Hampshire News reports: Visitors to Dinosaur Isle Museum on the Isle of Wight will be able watch experts build the vertebra of an Iguanodon, which roamed the Earth 130 million years ago.

‘Big Iggy’ was uncovered over several years by fossil hunter Nick Chase, who then donated it to the Sandown museum.

In the video: Stephen Hutt, curator of the Dinosaur Isle Museum, explains what happened to the dinosaur millions of years ago… Watch the special video report from the BBC click here:

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