News

So dinosaurs are currently big news & the junior section of the club can take a little interest in it.

A 201-million-year-old dinosaur that fell out of a cliff face at Penarth in South Wales in 2014 has been formally named as Dracoraptor hanigani.

The dinosaur, named Dracoraptor hanigani or Draco for short, represents the first dinosaur from the Jurassic of Wales, according to a study, published in the journal PLOS ONE. The over 200-million-year-old dino is believed to be the earliest known Jurassic dinosaur from the U.K.

Loosely translated, the Dracoraptor part means "dragon thief"; hanigani honours Rob and Nick Hanigan - the two fossil-hunting brothers who found it.

Rob  Hanigan  also  happens  to be  the  father  of  one  of  CRICC`s  U8  squad.

"So, everyone's been hunting for these really early Jurassic specimens, going to exotic places in Africa, North and Central America, and then a couple of brothers stumble across something on a beach near Cardiff."

The news even made it onto Sky News.

http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2016/01/DIGI160408WEWALESDINOSAURSOCIAL1453313415637700.mp4