Rhinos at the beach

And you were thrilled to find a pretty shell . . .

A group of palaeontologists has lifted a 70,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros skull from a Kent beach.

The skull, found by amateur Chris Milburn at Swalecliffe, was in danger of being washed away by the sea.

The spring tides on Sunday gave the group just two hours to rescue the skull. It was lifted to loud cheers just minutes before the waves came in. . .

And while the skull was being lifted, the group discovered the jaw of another young woolly mammoth complete with a tooth nearby.

Posted by David on April 11, 2005 7:55 PM