The surprising skull is two meters long and belongs to a particularly ferocious sea creature.
When it comes to prehistoric monsters, most people tend to think of Tyrannosaurus rex or any other large predatory dinosaur that roamed the earth tens of millions of years ago.
However, the prehistoric ocean was home to their own zoo of giant carnivorous beasts.
One of them is plesiosaur – a species that lives in about 1A giant marine reptile from 500 million years ago.
These gigantic creaturesUp to 15 meters long, it feeds on a variety of fish as well as sharks, ichthyosaurs, and any dinosaurs unfortunate enough to venture close.
Now, paleontologists have succeeded in extracting a two-meter-long plesiosaur skull from a cliff off the Jurassic coast of Dorset, England.
It is unique in that it is complete. Hardly any specimen in the world can achieve this level of detail.
Of particular note are the teeth of this creature - all 130.
They are incomparably sharp, with thin ridges designed to cut through flesh, ensuring a swift end to anything unfortunate enough to find yourself in the mouth of one of these giant predators.