Huge prehistoric 'sea dragon' fossil discovered in U.K. reservoir

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    What began with routine maintenance at a British nature reserve and reservoir has been hailed as a giant Jurassic "mega-find."

    Officials at Anglian Water and the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said Monday that they had uncovered the skeleton of an extinct prehistoric reptile predator, known colloquially as a sea dragon — the largest and most complete ever discovered in the U.K.


    The ichthyosaur fossil measures over 32 feet in length and has a 6-foot skull weighing around one ton. It lived about 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period when dinosaurs walked on land.

    read more https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...saur-fossil-discovered-uk-reservoir-rcna11565
     

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