HERE'S a chance to look back at the time when dinosaurs ruled York.
A slice of life 185 million years ago is going on display at the Yorkshire Museum, with the return of the popular Jurassic exhibition.
All those millennia ago this area - including the Museum Gardens - was covered by warm seas, extending as far as the Pennines.
Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes.
The icthyosaur found on the Yorkshire coast by a local fossil collector in August 2000 will be on display for the first time in the exhibition.
Also on display are dinosaur tracks never seen in public before, and other specimens from the internationally acclaimed collections at the Yorkshire Museum.
Dr Phil Manning, keeper of geology at the museum, said: "It's great to have real fossils from our own region on display.
"The exhibition will complement the existing Sea Dragon gallery, Hunters And The Hunted, that visitors already enjoy."
Jurassic opens on Friday and runs until June 30. The museum is open daily between 10am and 5pm.
Updated: 11:02 Tuesday, February 05, 2002
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