Your actual science...

Above: These unusual objects were once washed up on a Scottish beach. The locals were puzzled, what could they possibly be from? Some unknown species or perhaps a beast long since extinct?

A crack team of marine biologists, palaeontologists, DNA geneticists and computer modellers were asked to solve the enigma.

Below: After an eight year research programme with a budget to match the Hadron Collider, this is the detailed reconstruction they finally came up with.