Fossil sea monster biggest of its kind

The fossil of a 15 metre long "sea monster" found in Arctic Norway was the biggest of its kind known to science, with dagger-like teeth in a mouth large enough to bite a small car.


The 150 million-year-old pliosaur, a fierce marine reptile, was about five metres longer than the previous pliosaur record holder found in Australia.


Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in Oslo Joern Hurum, led the expedition to dig up the fossil on the archipelago of Svalbard 1,300 kilometres from the N

"A small car could fit inside its mouth," he said."