Sea Monster Unearthed

The fossilised skull of a giant sea monster so big it could have taken a human in one gulp has been found.

This beast, called a pliosaur, was so colossal it would have eaten a T-Rex for breakfast! It terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago while dinosaurs ruled the land. Pliosaurs had short necks and huge heads like crocodiles with powerful jaws and a set of enormous razor-sharp teeth.

This well-preserved skull was found along the United Kingdom’s Jurassic Coast and may be the largest pliosaur ever found.

Paleontologist David Martill says: "These creatures were monsters. They had massive big muscles on their necks, and you would have imagined that they would bite into the animal and get a good grip, and then with these massive neck muscles they probably would have thrashed the animals around and torn chunks off.”

“It would have been a bit of a blood bath," he adds.