The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast.
It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago.
The 2m-long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered and is giving new insights into this ancient predator.
The skull will be featured in a special David Attenborough programme on BBC One on New Year’s Day.
Sir that’s a dragon.
20-40 ft long. Would have been epic to see one alive. Tho’ possibly also relatively brief.
Up to 70 feet according to the BBC article.
Imagine that thing swimming toward you with its mouth open
Any dinosaur sea creature swimming towards me would make the water around me brown
You need to meet with your Dr or change your diet.
Some people are into that. Not me. Some people tho
Do it for science
Steve Etches will put the skull on display next year at his museum in Kimmeridge - the Etches Collection.
I love that they’re going to display this in the local museum!
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