22 January 2016
A Jurassic "sea monster" found in Cambridgeshire could prove to be a new species of plesiosaur, scientists said.
Oxford archaeologists discovered the 165 million-year-old reptile bones at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey.
Dr Carl Harrington and his team dug up more than 600 pieces of bone as well as the skull, still preserved in clay.
"Eve", described as "a fantastic fossil", has anatomical features only before seen in plesiosaurs half her size, a palaeontologist said.
Plesiosaurs were sea creatures that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.
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