In the summer of 1966 a local resident on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, discovered an enormous fossil buried along the shore. The Storr Lochs specimen turned out to be 1 170 year old ichthyosaur, from a family of extinct marine reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs.
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