"Monster" fossil found in Jurassic graveyard (Reuters)

by Populux | October 5, 2006 at 06:06 pm
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OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists have found a fossil of a "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway. The Norwegian researchers discovered remains of a total of 28 plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs -- top marine predators when dinosaurs dominated on land -- at a site on the island of Spitsbergen, about 1,300 km (800 miles) from the North Pole. "One of them was this gigantic monster, with vertebrae the size of dinner plates and teeth the size of ...

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