Forget Loch Ness — Storr Lochs Monster Ruled Ancient Scotland

Move over, Nessie! There's a new ancient sea monster in town: the Storr Lochs Monster, a fierce, dolphin-like predator that lived 170 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs. Found on a beach in 1966 near the SSE Storr Lochs Power Station by the facility's manager, Norrie Gillies, the fossil is the most complete skeleton of a Jurassic-era, sea-living reptile that has ever been found in Scotland. "Ichthyosaurs like the Storr Lochs Monster ruled the waves, while dinosaurs thundered across t