Amateur dinosaur hunter finds evidence that T.Rex's COUSIN roamed East Sussex 135 million years ago
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Steven Spielberg might have set Jurassic Park off the coast of Costa Rica, but a new discovery shows that England's south coast would have been just as likely a location. An incredible find by an amateur dinosaur hunter has revealed that East Sussex was once home to a fierce array of deadly carnivores - including a cousin of the T-rex.
![[Five fossilised teeth (pictured) were found in East Sussex. Tooth 'A' belongs to a spinosaur, tooth 'B' to a Tyrannosaur, tooth 'C' to a relative of the velociraptor, while D and E have yet to be identified]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/05/13/92826827-14161233-Five_fossilised_teeth_pictured_were_found_in_East_Sussex_Tooth_A-a-7_1733406083925.jpg)
Dave Brockhurst, 65, a former quarryman, discovered a set of fossilised teeth from three prehistoric predators within the clay pits of Bexhill-on-Sea. One of the teeth is 5cm long, serrated like a steak knife and is believed to have belonged to a horse-size relative of the T-Rex which lived 135 million years ago.
![[The fossils were discovered in the Ashdown Brickworks in Bexhill-on-Sea, just to the West of Eastbourne]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/05/14/92828541-14161233-The_fossils_were_discovered_in_the_Ashdown_Brickworks_in_Bexhill-a-1_1733409106952.jpg)
This is the first time anyone has found evidence of a member of the Tyrannosaur family from this period anywhere in the UK. In addition to the tyrannosaur tooth, Mr Brockhurst also found the needle-sharp fang of a 7m-long spinosaurus. And, rounding out the Jurassic Park cast, the final tooth came from a 1m-long dinosaur called a dromaeosaurid which is in the same family as the Velociraptor.
![[Dave Brockhurst, 65, a former quarryman, has spent the last 30 years looking for fossils in the Ashdown Brickworks but says that finding the predators' teeth stands out among the 5,000 specimens he has donated to the Bexhill Museum. Pictured: Mr Brockhurst at the site where the teeth were found]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/05/13/92829851-14161233-Dave_Brockhurst_65_a_fomer_quaryman_has_spent_the_last_30_years_-a-10_1733406340410.jpg)
Dr Neil Gostling, of the University of Southampton, told MailOnline: 'This huge diversity of predators is really pointing towards there being a vastly more diverse group of dinosaurs roaming around 135 million years ago in Southern England.'. An amateur dinosaur hunter has made a stunning discovery which proves that England's South Coast was home to a wide variety of predators including a relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
![[This terrifying serrated tooth belonged to a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex which lived 135 million years ago. Experts say that this dinosaur would have been 5m-long, a third as large as its famous cousin. It would have lived on the Cretaceous flood planes of the South coast and hunted for large herbivores]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/05/13/92830219-14161233-This_terrifying_serrated_tooth_belonged_to_a_cousin_of_the_Tyran-a-8_1733406285105.jpg)
