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The Economic Times
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In 1878, coal miners working beneath Belgium broke into a fossil chamber: The underground discovery transformed what scientists knew about dinosaurs

Beneath the ground of Belgium, workers in 1878 were conducting their regular activities in the industrial sector when they stumbled across a phenomenon that was out of the ordinary. Within the coal seam, there were bones that appeared to have a glow similar to that of pyrite, causing them to look like fool's gold. However, what these workers discovered was much more remarkable than fool's gold.

The Bernissart Mine Shaft unearthed one of the most significant paleontological discoveries of all time.

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