The skull of a gigantic sea monster which scoured the seas nearly 150 million years ago has been discovered off the coast of England. The formidable fossil, found in Dorset's Jurassic Coast, stretches almost seven feet long and belonged to a marine reptile known as a pliosaur. The exciting discovery was made when fossil enthusiast Phil Jacobs was walking along …
The skull of a gigantic sea monster which scoured the seas nearly 150 million years ago has been discovered off the coast of England. The formidable fossil, found in Dorset's Jurassic Coast, stretches almost seven feet long and belonged to a marine reptile known as a pliosaur. Sir David Attenborough with fossil experts Steve Etches and Chris Moore examining the …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. That’s due to what many researchers considered inaccurate claims he made about the size of another pliosaur in the BBC’s 1999 television documentary series “Walking With Dinosaurs.” One of the episodes “showed a 25-metre long Liopleurodon,” which “sparked heated debates … as it was thought to have been wildly overestimated and more …
