The bones of a marine reptile, twice the size of a killer whale, are found by chance in Abingdon.
Fossilised bones from a gigantic sea creature that lived 150 million years ago have been found in a drawer in a museum.
Prof David Martill and PhD student Megan Jacobs unearthed the remains but chance during a visit to the museum to photograph an ichthyosaur skeleton. The museum curator revealed the museum had three more vertebra from the skeleton in storage. "They had no idea that these were ginormous [bones] for this type of animal.
Twice the size of a killer whale, Prof Martill said the fearsome animals were swimming "in the seas that covered Oxfordshire 145-152 million years ago".
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