Crocodile creation
Something rather nasty opened its jaws yesterday in a new Jurassic garden which will take visitors on a 60 million year journey through time.
Sculptor Andrew Mckeown cleans off his life-size crocodile sculpture, which recalls a time when marine crocodiles swam around Whitby, and which was unveiled in the town's Pannett Park as part of a 1.4m restoration.
Robert Everiss, Pannett Park Project Officer, said the Teleosaur fossil in Whitby Museum was the inspiration for the work by sculptor the Middlesbrough artist.
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Hide AdMr Mckeown also drew inspiration from the nearest living relative to the Teleosaur: the Gharial, a fish-eating crocodile from India.
The work was cast in iron at the Robinson Engineering foundry in Loftus in Cleveland.