"I rang up the county council and I said I think I've found a dinosaur."
When English landscaper Joe Davis was doing routine maintenance work at a Rutland nature preserve in early 2021, he saw something unusual that looked like little clay pipes sticking out of the ground. But when he went in for a closer look, he realized he'd just stumbled upon the last thing he'd ever expect to find: the complete remains of a prehistoric sea dragon.
When he called the city council and said he'd found a dinosaur, they replied, "We don't have a dinosaur department... so we're going to have to get someone to call you back." Soon enough, paleontologists flocked to the scene and unearthed the skeleton of a 32-foot ichthyosaur the likes of which had never been found in England before.
See more of what experts are calling "one of the greatest finds in British palaeontological history" here: [bit.ly]