Paleontologists Discover The Biggest Pliosaur
By Nick March 2, 2008
A couple of years ago, a Norwegian team of paleontologists have discovered the remains of an dinosaurs. It was dugg from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard and later the fossils “said” that the pliosaur lived about 150 million years ago. To complete the skeleton it took about a year and we have to give the credit for this to Joern Hurum and his team from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.
From the beginning they made the conclusion that the fossil belongs to the pliosaur species and now they are sure that this is a new species and this is the biggest that ever wandered Earth. This sea monster measured 50 feet and its paddles were about 10 feet long.
Scientists say that the pliosaur had rivals and the primary enemy was the ichthyosaur. I don’t know if there is any species who wanted to interfere in their battle, not even the “Great White”.
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[...] (33-36 feet) long. But since this one was about 15 meters that makes it the biggest pliosaur. More details can be found here “Not only is this specimen significant in that it is one of the largest and relatively complete [...]