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Insect fossil discovery at Museum of Somerset
 
More than 2,000 insect fossils dating to the Jurassic period have been found at the Museum of Somerset after being forgotten for more than 90 years.
Geologist Charles Moore excavated them in the 1800s, but they were put in storage in 1915 and forgotten about.
They were rediscovered at the museum in Taunton as part of a project to restore Moore's entire fossil collection.

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