The largest ichthyosaur fossil ever found in the UK has been unearthed in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve
Gigantic dolphin-like marine reptiles once swam the seas. Now, a near complete fossilised skeleton of a 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur that measured 10 metres in length has been discovered in the UK.
The fossil is the largest and most complete ichthyosaur skeleton unearthed in the UK. It was found in theJoe Davis at Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust says he discovered the fossil by chance as he was working on landscaping the region. “I know lots of people have spent their lives looking for something like this and I’ve been very lucky to come across it,” he says.to be found in the UK. Such fossils are typically found in North America and Germany., some 20 centimetres in diameter.
“It is a truly unprecedented discovery and one of the greatest finds in British palaeontological history,” says
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