French fossils

The French seem suddenly to have found an interest in fossils – or perhaps they are just getting better at producing English language press releases.

So, hard on the heels of anthropoid fossils in Libya we hear of dinosaur fossils in Charente.

To make it more fun, Haldane had a very nice pocket cartoon in The Times: ‘They call it Existentialist Rex’.

And just to round off the department of small coincidences I found that Esperaza, the Languedoc town which hosts a dinosaur museum, also boasts a Hat Museum – just like Stockport.

Links
One of France's largest dinosaur fossil deposits found in the Charente region
DISCOVERING FOSSILS What is an echinoid?
New Psocoptera in the Early Cretaceous amber of SW France and Lebanon
Excavating dinosaurs at Espéraza
Esperaza Hat Museum
Hat Museum in Esperaza « Knit, purl and stitch
Stockport Museum Of Hatting

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