Crocodile skull millions of years old found ‘poking out of rock’

THE skull of a crocodile last seen roaming the earth alongside dinosaurs was unearthed by a fossil-hunter along the British coastline.

Crocodile skull millions of years old found ‘poking out of rock’

Richard Edmonds was walking along the coast at Swanage in Dorset when he found the 60cm skull of a 130 million-year-old crocodile poking out of a rock.

A cliff fall along the World Heritage Jurassic Coast unearthed the prehistoric predator, known as a goniopholis, which would have roamed Dorset’s swamps and lagoons alongside dinosaurs.

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