Fossil of Jurassic Sea Monster Discovered

The fossil of a Jurassic sea monster dubbed the Loch Storr Monster, with its long, toothy mouth, buried in a stone sarcophagus, has just been unearthed by the National Museum.

A sea monster with hundreds of teeth.

This 170-million-year-old fossil, recently unearthed from an ancient rock, is a giant deep-sea predator. It measured approximately 4 meters in length and had a long mouth with hundreds of sharp teeth. This reptile, belonging to the ichthyosaur family, also known as "fish lizards," became extinct before the dinosaurs.

Dr. Steve Brusatte, from the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, stated that ichthyosaurs similar to the Loch Ness Monster dominated the oceans while dinosaurs swept across the land. They were larger and more fearsome than the legendary Loch Ness Monster. They lived in Scotland 170 million years ago.

The fossilized skeleton was discovered on a beach in the Isle of Skye by an amateur archaeologist in 1966. It was subsequently handed over to the National Museum of Scotland.

The fossils will be displayed in several locations once the scientists have completed their analysis.

This fossil will help scientists better understand the period of this species' dominance and extinction on Earth.

According to VietNamnet