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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maryam Zakir-Hussain

Jurassic fossil fish more than 180 million years old found in Gloucestershire cattle field

Dean Lomax

A fierce-looking fossil fish has been discovered in a new Jurassic dig site in Gloucestershire, having been perfectly preserved for almost 200 million years.

The fossil shows pronounced big eyes and teeth with its mouth wide open of a fish which lived in a tropical sea roughly 183 million years ago.

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