Nazi bombs destroyed a priceless 'sea monster' fossil. Scientists just found its long-lost plaster copies.

More than 70 years ago, during a WWII air raid in the U.K., German bombs destroyed a rare fossil of an ichthyosaur. Scientists just found long-lost plaster casts of the priceless skeleton.

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