Bernissart

Bernissart is a Walloon municipality located inside the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January 1, 2006, Bernissart had a total populace of 11,458. The general area is 43.42 km², which offers a population density of 264 inhabitants in step with km². The municipality consists of the village of Blaton, previously an impartial municipality. In 1878, dozens of Iguanodon skeletons had been determined in a coal mine, at a depth of 322 m. At the time, their proximity became taken into consideration proof that some dinosaurs have been herd animals. They had been hooked up by means of Louis Dollo and set the usual that was followed for over a century.

Nine of the twenty-nine skeletons are currently on show at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and one at the Bernissart Museum. The two museums even made an blunders they well known with humour: they displayed the skeletons "standing", suggesting that the dinosaurs were bipedal, which is not the case. Found along the Iguanodon skeletons were the stays of vegetation, fish, and different reptiles, which includes the crocodyliform Bernissartia.