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.
Imagine that thing swimming toward you with its mouth open
Any dinosaur sea creature swimming towards me would make the water around me brown
Learning from the noble squid, I see.
Some people are into that. Not me. Some people tho
Do it for science