The long-necked sea monster in the UK may be a new dinosaur

Fossil skeleton of Jurassic sea monster found in Cambridgeshire, England, most likely belongs to a new long-necked dinosaur.

BBC on January 22, archaeologists at Oxford University, England, discovered 165-million-year-old reptile skeleton at Must Farm near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. Dr. Carl Harrington and his colleagues dug more than 600 bones and skulls under clay. Eve , the name of the specimen, has physical characteristics that are only found in long-necked dinosaurs that are half as small as it.

Eve's skeleton has many dinosaur-like features.

Eve's first part was the first thing Dr. Harrington noticed when digging into the wet clay. Then the Oxford Clay Working Group team found hundreds of fossil bones. They spend over 400 hours to clean and edit specimens."I've never seen so many bones in a place in a mine like that," said Dr Harrington. Nearly all of the bones of the animal were discovered, except for the following flippers and the previous flippers.

According to the research team, Eve lived long before the Bronze Age and is a long-necked dinosaur that has not been recorded. Experts at Oxford Museum of Natural History are studying the skeleton.

Dr. Roger Benson, a paleontologist, said Eve had a 2.5-meter neck, a barrel-like body, four flippers and a short tail. Scientists are trying to separate the animal's skull from the surrounding clay block, by computerized tomography to locate bone fragments without damaging them.