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Programme 1
Hastings Iguanodon
For the Hastings show the Big Monster Dig team already had half a dinosaur, so finding the rest shouldn't have been too hard, should it? Well, it probably wouldn't have been if the other half hadn't been stuck in a cliff nearly 30 metres above the beach.
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Programme 2
The Isle of Wight pterosaur
The Big Monster Dig team are in the Isle of Wight digging up a pterosaur. Part of this fossil had already been discovered by an amateur fossil hunter, a young lad called Dan Davies, whose keen eyes had spotted what turned out to be a pterosaur's wing bone.
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Programme 3
Sabre tooths in Spain
In the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees, the Big Monster Dig team was put on the trail of a very unusual puzzle: mounds of mud in a disused limestone quarry that were full of bones. To add to the mystery, most of the bones were from big, sabre tooth cats.
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Programme 4
Leedsichthys: the big fish
This story was slightly different from the usual Big Monster Dig investigation because the star of the show – the giant Leedsichthys – had already been found. The first bits of this monster fish were spotted two years previously.
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Programme 5
Titanosaur eggs in France
The Aude region of southern France was the location of the team's great egg-stravaganza. Pieces of fossilised eggshell had been turning up in a vineyard and the locals wanted to know what had laid the eggs.
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Programme 6
The Latton quarry mammoths
The Latton quarry mammoths were an unusual subject for the Big Monster Dig team. Most palaeontologists concentrate on rocks that are millions of year old, so working in gravels that are a mere 10-100,000 years old is known affectionately as 'gardening'.
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