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New prehistoric 'sea dragon' with 'hundreds of teeth' discovered on UK coastline

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA fossil hunter has discovered a new type of prehistoric "sea dragon" buried in limestone on the UK coastline.Dr Steve Etches, who collects fossils, found the new two-metre-long ichthyosaur on a beach in Dorset.Ichthyosaurs are a type of prehistoric creature and are called sea dragons because they tend to have very large teeth and eyes.After noticing the creature's unusual teeth, he passed the fossil on to experts at the University of Portsmouth to properly identify.Megan Jacobs, who has spent several years working on ichthyosaurs, identified the fossil as a new genus and species which lived 150 million years ago.The discovery is the.

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