Two metre skull of prehistoric 'sea monster' found on UK beach

A fossil-enthusiast happened upon the well-preserved prehistoric snout while walking along a beach in Kimmeridge Bay near Dorset, UK.

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00:00 Okay. Oh wow. It's huge.

00:04 So what makes this unique is it's complete.

00:14 So the lower jaws and the upper skull are meshed together as it would be in life.

00:18 To find that, I think worldwide, there's hardly any specimen ever found to that level of detail.

00:24 If they are, a lot of the bits are missing.

00:28 Whereas this, although it's slightly distorted, it's got every bone present.

00:32 I just found something quite extraordinary.

00:43 It's the jaw of a massive pliosaur.

00:47 It's enormous.

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