Move over Nessie: Real Scottish sea monster found

An artist's rendering of a Jurassic marine reptile which was a member of the ichthyosaur family, in a photo relesed from the University of Edinburgh on September 5, 2016. - University of Edinburgh/AFP / Todd Marshall

PARIS: A toothy, dolphin-like predator which prowled the oceans in the Jurassic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, has been uncovered in a Scottish museum where it lay buried for 50 years, scientists said Monday.

First discovered in 1966, the fossil has at last been freed from its prehistoric sarcophagus to reveal a chunky, four-metre-long (13 feet) deep-sea killer -- its pointed mouth bristling with hundreds of cone-shaped teeth.