Complex sentence: The fossil had a skull length of 2.4 m and a body length of 16 m. Paleontologist Richard Forrest told the BBC: I had heard rumours that something big was turning up.
Split into simpler sentences: The fossil had a skull length of 2.4 metres and a body length of 16 metres. Palaeontologist Richard Forrest told the BBC: I had heard rumours that something big was turning up.