Animals - Aquariums - Archeology - Insects - Fossils - Zoos
Mar. 15, 1978 - 300 million year old unearthed down a Derbyshire goal mine; The remains of a 300 million year old dragonfly, one of the world's earliest known flying insects, found 350 yards down at a Derbyshire Pit, were uncovered by two miners with a keen eye for a likely looking fossil. It was at the Bolsover Colliery, Near Chesterfield, when Malcolm Spencer and Terry Judge realized they had unearthed something special was just the faintest impression on a lump of coal, which Mr. Judge Knew was a gem'. The four inch long fron wing has been studied by Mr. Paul Walley, head of the fossil section of insects at the Natural History Museum. He named it the Bolsover dragonfly erasifetron bolsoveri and said it's quite remarkable that the miners were able to discover this wing. It could so easily have gone up in smoke in somebody's fireplace
