Fossils are dead by nature, or so they say. Naturally, no life can thrive in extreme pressure conditions of depth and time in massive tree trunks, solid rocks, or encased stones from far beneath Earth's surface.
Sitting out in the Thames estuary of Essex, England, and near the mouth of the River Thames, is a speck of reclaimed land measuring just 7.12 square miles called Canvey Island. Once a thriving, fast-growing seaside resort between the years of 1911 and 1951, it would later largely be abandoned after a massive flood in 1953, to then go on to become a parish with a current population of around 38,000. The island has a fairly long history, having been inhabited since the Roman invasion of Britain, and has its fair of folklore and ghost stories, but one of the weirder tales to come from this place was when a series of strange carcasses washed up on shore here to become known as “The Canvey Island Monsters.”