posted on Oct, 28 2009 @ 05:56 PM
October 27, 2009
Dinosaur experts in Dorset, England, are examining the fossilized skull of a sea monster so large they say it could have eaten a Tyrannosaurus rex for
breakfast.
The fossil head is 8 feet long, suggesting that the beast measured up to 54 feet from the tip of its massive, crocodile-like snout to the end of its
muscular tail, making it one of the largest specimens ever found.
The skull belongs to a pliosaur, one of a group of giant aquatic reptiles which roamed the warm seas over what is now southern Britain 150 million
years ago.
It was spotted protruding from an unstable patch of cliff by Kevan Sheehan, a local fossil hunter, after being exposed by a rockfall. He spent four
years going back day after day and painstakingly managed to uncover it.
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Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
An artist's interpretation of the gigantic pliosaur hunting ichthyosaurs, dolphin-shaped marine reptiles
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Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
An artist's interpretation of the gigantic pliosaur catching a pterosaur in mid-flight