World's first fossilised dinosaur brain found on UK beach

Traces of organic matter dating back 133 million years could unlock mysteries of dinosaur intelligence

Scientists have confirmed a small fossil found on a Sussex beach contains pieces of a 133-million-year-old dinosaur brain.

The fossil appears indistinguishable from a common pebble, but eagle-eyed collector Jamie Hiscocks spotted it in a rock pool in Bexhill, East Sussex, in 2004 and passed it on to palaeontologists.

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