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FOSSILS found by an 11-year-old girl on a UK beach belonged to one of the largest marine reptiles ever, experts believe.
Ruby Reynolds – now 15 – stumbled across fossilised remains of a gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres on a Somerset beach in 2020.
She and her father, Justin Reynolds, stumbled across the piece while fossil hunting at the seaside village Blue Anchor near Minehead.
Palaeontologists say the pieces are from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur and estimate it was around 25 metres in length, the size of two buses.
It was so cool to discover part of this gigantic ichthyosaur. I am very proud to have played a part in a scientific discovery …
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