Bexhill's 'pickled' dinosaur brain

Scientists from Oxford and Cambridge University have shared these fascinating pictures following the discovery of a pickled dinosaur brain near Bexhill.

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The 'brown pebble'

The unassuming brown pebble found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter Jamie Hiscocks near Bexhill is the first example of fossilised brain tissue from a dinosaur.

The brain is thought to belong to a species closely related to the Iguanodon

Life-like restoration of the head and anterior neck based on the anatomy of the iguanodontian ornithopod

The area in orange is where it is thought the brain matter would have sat

(b) Semi-transparent restoration of I. bernissartensis head showing the position and general morphology of the endocranial cavity (orange).

Scientists explain how the tissue has changed over time

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