Stephen Smith points out that the amazing discovery was actually made by chance while out for a birthday stroll hundreds of miles to the west.
Every child’s dream is to stumble upon a real dinosaur in the garden, preferably one of the less fearsome species that eats a sensible diet of plants.
A dream is all it is for most people, but not for a man named Jason Cooper.
He has not just seen dinosaurs in his backyard once, but numerous times.
Actually, he’s more likely than not to when taking a stroll around his property in the American Southwest.
However, he might never find another specimen quite like the one he found a few years ago. It was so large that it would resemble an ancient, double-decker Routemaster bus if it showed up on a London street, albeit you would have to be careful which one you boarded.
The massive stegosaurus was in remarkable shape considering that it had lived underground for the previous 150 million years.
