The fossil is nearly 33 feet long — roughly the size of a bus — and is believed to be the largest ichthyosaur skeleton ever discovered in the U.K.
January 10, 2022 / 11:24 AMPaleontologists have made a massive discovery in the United Kingdom's smallest county — the fossilized remains of a giant Jurassic sea creature. The fossil, which researchers said is"very well-preserved," is said to be the"palaeontological discovery of a lifetime," according to the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
At first, he said in a statement, he thought the remains were clay pipes sticking out of the mud, except that"they looked organic." He told a colleague that they looked like vertebrae, and when they got closer, they saw"what indisputably looked like a spine" as well as a jawbone at the spine's end.
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