Scientists Discover The Most Complete Sea Monster Skull Ever, Trapped High On A Cliff

Summary:

• A hundred and fifty million years ago, the greatest pliosaur skull was discovered, changing everything with a beach walk.

• A drone found SeaRex twelve meters above the beach, leading to a scientific rappelling down the cliff.

• SeaRex, a possibly new species, with a bite stronger than T-Rex, is now a world record holder on display.

A hundred and fifty million years ago, there was a terrifying predator that was in command of the ancient oceans on Earth. This week its face is back. The greatest pliosaur skull in the history of the world has been formally registered with the Guinness World Records by scientists; the wonder of wonders has been discovered in a one-meter-deep, crumbling English cliff, and recovered in one of the most extraordinary and most daunting excavations that fossil-hunting hands have ever applied.

It Changes Everything With a Beach Walk

It was likened to the youth of a man who, casually strolling the Jurassic Coast of England in the county of Dorset, a fossil enthusiast, was able to see a small fragment of the ancient protruding snout of the beach beneath a towering cliff, and made a silent alteration to the history of science forever.

The Drone That Found SeaRex

Failing to find any other part of the skull, even at the ground level, the team hired a drone to survey the cliffside. It uncovered the total skull that was twelve meters high above the beach and not ripped away in any way; it was absolutely impossible.

Rappelling Down for Science

 

The confirmation of the find necessitated the drop off the face of the cliff by ropes. What lay before the investigators dangling halfway down one of the Dorset cliffs, as they were in fact to fall, was what can only be characterized as truly and literally much more than they had expected scientifically.

Three Weeks out of the Air

 

The excavation crew had three tedious weeks of chiseling the fossil out of the solid rock – hung between ropes and above the beach – before they were able to extract their find, working till nine thirty at night on the last day they had to work.

Sixty-five Percent Finish

SeaRex has a surface area that is ninety-five percent complete and is therefore the most complete pliosaur skull ever known on Earth, having one hundred and thirty teeth that are still perfectly intact and interlocked as they must have been when they were alive.

Greater Than The majority of Mankind

 

The skull is two meters, that is, about six feet six inches in length. Scientists estimate that the full animal was roughly ten to twelve meters in length, making it one of the most powerful ocean predators of all time.

A Bite Stronger Than T-Rex

Investigators estimated the strength of the bite of the SeaRex at thirty-three thousand newtons, or twice the strength of a saltwater crocodile and perhaps even stronger than what the Tyrannosaurus rex was reputed to have been able to, during the Cretaceous era.

Possibly a Brand New Species

Scientists examining SeaRex are also of the opinion that it could be a species that has never been described in science before, namely in the way the specimen was constructed and presented with unique structural characteristics that have not been documented in any known pliosaur specimen anywhere in the globe to date.

The Rest May Still Be There

It is believed that the entire skeleton is stuck in the quickly eroding Dorset cliff by fossil experts. There is an ongoing campaign to raise money to position a complete excavation in front of the cliffside, which is collapsing and becoming permanent and irreversible, before it falls off and removes all that is in it.

Now a World Record Holder

SeaRex has officially been registered in the Guinness World Records and is now on display to the general public in the Etches Collection Museum at Kimmeridge, Dorset, where one hundred and fifty million years of ocean history lie mute and silent, awaiting all visitors.