The Drone Allowed a Large-Scale View From the Air of the Fossilized Remains of a 180-Million-Year-Old Sea Dragon

The largest ichthyosaur ever found

Drone footage has giv­en view­ers a full glimpse of just how long — and arche­o­log­i­cal­ly huge — a 180-mil­lion-year-old ‘sea drag­on’ fos­sil lies at the bot­tom of a reser­voir in the UK where it was dis­cov­ered in the past. year.

* Ichthyosaurs became extinct about 90 mil­lion years ago.

Accord­ing to Anglian Water, which owns and oper­ates the Rut­land Water nature reserve where the dis­cov­ery was made, the remains rep­re­sent the largest ichthyosaur ever dis­cov­ered in the UK, at around 10 meters long. After near­ly a year of research and exca­va­tion to dis­cov­er a Juras­sic sea crea­ture, a recent drone shot of Rut­land Water Con­ser­va­tion Team Leader Joe Davis lying next to a fos­silized find from the UK has pro­vid­ed a bet­ter idea of ​​just how big the so-called ” sea ​​Drag­on”.