Two university student researchers have found a 115 million years old fossil that resembles a huge sea snail weighing 96 kg along Isle of Wight in Britain.
Jack Wonfor (19) and Theo Vickers (21) who had co-founded the Wight Coast Fossils, an initiative to share, preserve and protect the unique geological heritage of Isle of Wight, stumbled on this massive fossil in the Lower Greensand at Chale Bay. They had spent hours in excavating and transporting safely from the coastline.
The fossil is believed to be of an extinct mollusc named Tropaeum Bowerbanki.
The Isle of Wight has an impressive track record for fossil finds, with its coastline a fertile ground for fossil hunters.
Over the next few weeks, the researchers would be cleaning and studying the ammonite and try to understand how it may have looked and lived.