The routine draining of a lagoon in Britain recently exposed the remains of a Jurassic reptilian sea-dweller called the ichthyosaur — more impressively known as the “sea dragon.”
In preparation for re-landscaping and regrading islands in the United Kingdom’s Rutland Water Nature Reserve, Rutland Water conservation team leader Joe Davis, alongside reserves officer Paul Trevor, spotted what looked like “clay pipes” protruding from the mud. Only they weren’t pipes. Davis noted that they “looked organic.”
“I worked out on the Hebrides, so I’ve found whale and dolphin skeletons before. This appeared similar and I remarked to Paul that they looked like vertebrae,”
