It is always a humbling experience to realize how recent our species is and how old our planet is, especially when discoveries are made that predate our existence by millions of years.
It is now the skull of what could be thought of as the ultimate sea monster that has given us yet another reminder of our tiny existence after being extracted from the cliffs of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast.
The colossal sea monster in question was a pliosaur, a voracious marine reptile that terrorized the oceans approximately 150 million years ago.
