By
Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent
25 March
2019
British
scientists are about to undertake one of their biggest dinosaur hunts in
decades.
They are
joining US and Dutch institutions in exploring what is expected to be a
treasure trove of fossils in the "Badlands" of Wyoming.
The US
state has yielded some of the most famous specimens ever found, and the
international group will excavate one square mile (260ha) of ground.
"It's
an incredible site, mind-blowing," said Prof Phil Manning.
"In
the UK, we rarely see anything like this - whole dinosaurs coming out of the
ground. But that's what we've got here," the University of Manchester
palaeontologist told BBC News.
"And
the funding we have in place permits us to open up football pitch-sized areas
at a time, if need be."
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