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The Natural History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk
The Natural History Museum is the UK's national museum of natural history and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and biodiversity. Its website has a wide range of information for dinosaur enthusiasts and history lovers.
Peterborough Museum
www.peterboroughheritage.org.uk
Click on 'Archaeology' to learn more about the artefacts held here and the museum's commitment to preservation and history.
Hunterian Museum of Glasgow
www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk
Homepage of the Hunterian Museum.
Gideon Mantell
www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Mantell/1.html
A short biography of Gideon Mantell, the man who first discovered and named the Iguanodon in the early 1800s.
Jurassic Geology
www.livingarchive.org.uk/bluelagoon/docs/geology.html
Discusses how geology can teach us about the past, with information on Jurassic Clay and the enormous fish, Leedsichthys, among other things.
Books for adults
The Dinosaur Hunters: A true story of scientific rivalry and the discovery of the prehistoric world by Deborah Cadbury (Fourth Estate, 2001)
The remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between Gideon Mantell and Richard Owens, both of whom were obsessed with fossil finding and dinosaurs.
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Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs by Dennis R Dean (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Academic biography of Gideon Mantell, one of the first wave of dinosaur hunters in the 19th century. He found many species of dinosaur, including the Iguanodon.
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Books for children
Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner (Chronicle Books, 2001)
This book uses rhyme and pictures to bring the world of dinosaurs to life for children and contains many dino-facts for the uninitiated.
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The Jurassic Dinosaurs (Dinosaurs Undercover) by Rupert Matthews (Blackbirch Press, 2002)
This book explores the Jurassic dinosaur period, the same time that the Leedsichthys was alive.
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