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 ...
The 2m-long pliosaur fossil featured in a BBC film with Sir David Attenborough A Dorset museum displaying the skull of a huge sea creature said it has had a record number of visitors. The 2m-long ...
because in the collections we've got pliosaur bones with pliosaur bite marks in them." The skull is being displayed at the Etches Collection in Kimmeridge in Dorset from today.
I went to Kimmeridge on a sunny day in May to surface scan the pliosaur skull discovered by Steve Etches and his crew. A significant portion of my PhD work involved using a portable surface ...