Find the bones of 'water monsters' in England

Archaeologists are assembling fossil skeletons of a strange giant animal that once lived in the English Channel 200 million years ago.

The animal is shaped like a Loch Ness monster with long necks, four flippers and sharp teeth.Photo: Telegraph.

Tracey Marler, a fossil expert, found more than 150 pieces of bone beneath limestone rocks on the Monmouth coast, near the town of Lyme Regis, Dorset County, England. Scientists have spent many months arranging bone fragments in order. When the work is nearing completion, they realize that the skeleton's integrity level is 70%. It is a dragon (Plesiosaur) with a length of about 3.6 m.

Quy Long is a reptile that lives in warm and saltwater environments 150-200 million years ago, when the English Channel was also a tropical tropical sea. They have been raging in the waters around Antarctica for several million years. Adults can reach a length of up to 10 m. The dragon is quite similar in appearance to the Loch Ness lake monster - with long necks, sharp teeth, 4-shaped paddle legs. Thanks to the flippers they can "fly" in the water like penguins.

Tooth marks on many bones show that the animal may have been bitten or torn by a predatory dinosaur.

Richard Edmonds, scientific director of Jurassic Coast World Natural Heritage, said: "Quy Long is a very rare species. Currently only 10 complete and incomplete bones have been found throughout. world".