The bird drops suddenly into the water to grab its prey, and then returns to its perch, where it swallows the struggling creature head-first.
Then an even more bizarre looking creature heads right towards us: dark grey, but sporting a red head and what looks like a yellow scarf hanging around its neck.
Well, if there is a story, it goes something like this: Denis Diderot, fantastical creature (head of philosopher, body of a playwright, short and curlies of a librarian) sells his collection of books - the raw material of his Encyclopaedia - to Catherine the Great, who promptly buys the man himself as an appendix to his own library, and carts off both to her Winter Palace.
The scene is not Dallas, the year not 1963, though I think we're meant to be jolted by the possibility that these two stunning creatures are headed for an appointment in Samara.
Marsh said the creature started heading back out to sea but today it had returned to Chester.
Burton travels to Africa, learning about Merrin Max von Sydoww again) and his original tussle with the creature, before heading back for the final showdown.
The researchers affixed sensors to the creatures' heads with suction cups, which could detect electrical activity in the brain.
The fossils, including teeth and skull or jaw fragments from all four species but vertebrae from only two, show all the hallmarks of snakes, especially in the creatures' heads, the researchers report online today in Nature Communications.
Tellingly, in a crowded carriage, there was a lot of space around both the orthodox Jewish men and this ginger headed creature.
One of Earth's most spectacular creatures is heading towards oblivion, along with the vaquita dolphin, the Javan rhinoceros, the western lowland gorilla, the Amur leopard and many other species whose numbers are today declining dramatically.
