that lived 250 million years ago. it was discovered poking through the mud at rutland water nature reserve in leceistershire. jonah fisher has more. last february, on a bank of mud in a midlands reservoir, joe davis made an extraordinary discovery. we were re landscaping some islands on the rutland water nature reserve there to improve it for bird habitats. and i looked down, ijust saw this series of ridges in the mud and thought, that looks different, there s something there that s different. and it had organic features almost where it connects onto the rib. so, yeah, that s when we thought we need to call somebody and find out. a team of experts was quickly dispatched. joe hadn t found a dinosaur, but it was an ichthyosaur a monstrous, air breathing sea reptile, also known as a sea dragon, that swam about 180 million years ago. back then, rutland and most of the midlands was under water,
predator, rather like a huge prehistoric dolphin, that lived 250 million years ago. it was discovered poking through the mud at rutland water nature reserve in leceistershire. jonah fisher has more. last february, on a bank of mud in a midlands reservoir, joe davis made an extraordinary discovery. we were relandscaping some islands on the rutland water nature reserve there to improve it for bird habitats. and i looked down, ijust saw this series of ridges in the mud and thought, that looks different, there s something there that s different. and it had organic features almost where it connects onto the rib. so, yeah, that s when we thought we need to call somebody and find out. a team of experts was quickly dispatched. joe hadn t found a dinosaur, but it was an ichthyosaur a monstrous, air breathing sea reptile, also known as a sea dragon, that swam about 180 million years ago.
one of the uk s greatest ever fossil finds has been revealed the skeleton of a 10 metre long sea predator rather like a huge prehistoric dolphin that lived 250 million years ago. it was discovered poking through the mud at rutland water nature reserve in leceistershire. it s in rutland, not less a share. jonah fisher has more. last february, on a bank of mud in a midlands reservoir, joe davis made an extraordinary discovery. we were relandscaping some islands on the rutland water nature reserve there to improve it for bird habitats. and i looked down, ijust saw this series of ridges in the mud and thought, that looks different, there s something there that s different. and it had organic features almost where it connects onto the rib. so, yeah, that s when we thought we need to call somebody and find out. a team of experts was quickly dispatched.
we should be able to cope ourselves, she says. then again, without outside help, there could be civil war. what happened in kazakhstan has left this country and its people in shock and in fear at what comes next. steve rosenberg, bbc news, almaty. one of the uk s greatest ever fossil finds has been revealed the skeleton of a 10 metre long sea predator, rather like a huge prehistoric dolphin, that lived 250 million years ago. it was discovered poking through the mud at rutland water nature reserve in leceistershire. jonah fisher has more. last february, on a bank of mud in a midlands reservoir, joe davis made an extraordinary discovery. we were relandscaping some islands on the rutland water nature reserve there to improve it for bird habitats.