A NEW dinosaur discovery is being shown in Stroud's Museum in the Park at an exciting exhibition of paintings and sculptures by artist Adam White entitled Palaeontology is a Dangerous Beast.

The new dinosaur footprints were discovered by amateur palaeontologists Alan Foulds and Adam White on a fossil hunt near Daglingworth, near Cirencester.

Alan was chipping away at some shell fossils from a block of Jurassic limestone, when the whole rock suddenly split in two, revealing the 25cm footprints of a theropod dinosaur.

Adam said: “It's hard to say what species of dinosaur the footprints are from, but it was certainly bipedal. Their owner may have been a juvenile carnivorous dinosaur like a Megalosaurus.

"It’s an extremely rare find. We found no other evidence of dinosaurs in the quarry - it's very fortuitous that Alan accidentally split that particular rock. It's an almost psychic discovery."

Alan added: "We did know that dinosaur footprints had been found in the quarry, but we never thought of looking for them. Keep looking, you never know what might turn up."

The footprints will be on display together with Adam’s unique near-complete Ichthyosaur fossil found near Stroud.

There will also be giant ammonites and huge geologically inspired artworks being shown until Sunday, June 25.

A special open evening takes place on June 9 at Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud.

7.30-10pm.

The evening will feature live tectonic-art performances made from the living rocks. There will also be edible 'great white bites' cast from giant fossil shark teeth in white chocolate to nibble on.

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