The routine draining of a lagoon in Britain exposed the remains of a Jurassic reptilian sea-dweller called the ichthyosaur—more impressively known as the “sea dragon.” In preparation for re-landscaping, regrading islands in the UK’s Rutland Water Nature Reserve, Rutland water conservation team leader Joe Davis, alongside Reserves Officer Paul Trevor, spotted what looked like “clay pipes” protruding from the mud. Only they weren’t pipes. Davis noted that they “looked organic.” “I worked out on the Hebrides, so I’ve found whale and dolphin skeletons before. This appeared similar and I remarked to Paul that they looked like vertebrae,” Davis said in a press release. “We followed what indisputably looked like a spine and Paul discovered something further along that could have been a jawbone. “We couldn’t quite believe it.” The initial ichthyosaur skeleton sighting, in February 2021, was followed by an excavation in August and September. A team of expert paleontologists …