But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

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He displayed his discovery at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and showed it off to colleagues, including Othniel Marsh--who retorted that the head of his so-called elasmosaurus was firmly affixed to its tail.

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Now, the ferocious dinosaur is depicted in a bird-like posture, tail in the air and head pitched forward of its two massive legs.

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