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.

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.