Walking on the sea, two students pulled strange creatures from the 'tomb' 115 million years

After 10 hours of work, two 19 and 21-year-old British students brought to the ground a strange creature, like a snail and the size . of a car tire.

The strange creature was identified as an ammonite, also known as a stone snail, a snail . It is an extinct marine creature that existed on earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossil ammonites are often used as jewelry, such as pendants. However, the strange creature that two young men Jack Wonfor (19 years old) and Theo Vickers (21 years old) can be said to be one of the largest snails in archaeological history: weighs 96kg, 55cm in diameter.

Wonfor and Vickers are two amateur fossil hunters, two of the founding members of the Wight Coast Fossils fossil hunters organization.

Jack Wonfor by the strange 115 million year old creature has just been removed from the "tomb stone" on the beach - (photo: Wight Coast Fossils).

Preliminary analysis shows that the specimen is 115 million years old, that is, of the Cretaceous - the golden age of dinosaurs. 2 boys found it on a beach trip, not forgetting to keep an eye on the fossils. It took them up to 10 hours to get this strange creature out of its solid "tomb" .

The creature is thought to be a female due to its shocking size. With ammonite species, the females often develop larger bodies to undertake the reproductive role. However, this huge size indicates that the "gender deformity " of this extinct species is more surprising than previously known.

In addition, it is a valuable proof of how well ammonite can grow.

Chale Bay coastal area where fossils were found The coast of this island was originally a "mecca" of strange prehistoric creatures - (photo: DAILY MAIL)

The site of this strange fossil was discovered on the shores of the Chale Bay of Isle of Wight. The island's 95 miles of coastline is one of the UK's "paleontological sites" and the world, with numerous sea monsters of various ages discovered. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and is also known as "Jurassic Coast".

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