I find this to be an interesting find related to the ancient past of Earth sea inhabiting creatures. The size of this skull can only be a provide a
limited visual of the size of the actual creature. When I see these types of finds it makes me think about the FAR past when Earth was more land
locked. Allowing these large sea creatures the oppurtunity to cruise the entire ocean plane with freedom (making their bodies stronger and larger
since their living environment was so large) allowing these large creatures the chance to have a diet that would consist of basically any other ocean
living creatures around the total Earth oceans.
Put on display July 8 at the U.K.'s Dorset County Museum, the 7.9-foot-long (2.4 meter-long) skull (pictured) belonged to a pliosaur, a type of
plesiosaur that had a short neck, a huge, crocodile-like head, and razor-sharp teeth. When alive about 155 million years ago, the seagoing creature
would have had a strong enough bite to snap a car in half, according to the museum.
Amateur collector Kevan Sheehan found the skull in pieces between 2003 and 2008 at the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, a 95-mile (152-kilometer)
stretch of fossil-rich coastline in England. The Dorset County Council's museums service purchased the fossil, and later research by University of
Southampton scientists suggests that it's the largest complete pliosaur skull ever found.
news.nationalgeographic.com...
So some can only imagine the power that this creature carried with every bite, amazing to have an ability to snap a car in half. There must of been
some other fierce creatures existing back then for nature to provide this animal with some much bitting strength. 1 can only imagine the other
competing animals who swam with these creatures in the far ancient wild oceans. And basically any other animals back then whos descendents exist
today would of as well been equipped with various protection methods, so one can see how many of the old sea monster datas shared could of been real
things. Just some of the descended offspring from the elder large animals of the sea.
To go further I think as humanity begins to probe some of the interest moons in the local SOL system like Enceladus or Callisto there may be found in
these potential super water bodies even larger and un touched animals that may be giants when compared to the ones found on Earth.
Enceladus:
Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet for an ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's Enceladus, suggesting it could join the exclusive
club of watery moons in our solar system.
The salty water is likely feeding jets of water-ice that spurt from the moon's south polar region. Such plumes were first reported in 2005, and ever
since, astronomers have suspected a liquid ocean might lie beneath the icy shell of Saturn's sixth largest moon.
The new finding, published in the June 25 issue of the journal Nature, could bump this diminutive world ? measuring 310 miles (500 km) in diameter
(about the width of Arizona) ? into a class that includes Jupiter's Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
Callisto:
A recent image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft adds evidence to a theory that Callisto, the outermost of Jupiter's four large moons, may hold an
underground ocean.
The image shows a part of Callisto's surface directly opposite from the Valhalla basin where Callisto was punched by a major collision. The opposition
point shows no effect from the impact. Points opposite major impact features on some similar-size worlds, such as Mercury and Earth's Moon, show lumpy
terrain attributed to seismic shocks from the distant impacts.
The new image is consistent with a 1990s model proposing that a liquid layer could be acting as a shock absorber inside Callisto, said planetary
geologist Dr. David A. Williams of Arizona State University, Tempe.
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edit on 7/15/11 by Ophiuchus 13 because: (no reason given)
. thats why I think the oceans contain some very very undistrubed secrets, but again with the spance between land and water maybey
its natures way of saying some encounters are not ment to be--atleast for now-- 
