Posted on 10/27/2009 10:38:04 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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.
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Not even the same scale. Noah’s ark was in cubits. 300 cubits long.
In fact, I think when they piece the skeleton together they might find the animal was struck by the ark as it was going too fast in a no wake zone.
Reconstructed Carcharocles megalodon jaws
on display at the American Museum of Natural History
"C. megalodon exceeded 17 metres (56 ft) in length and was by far the biggest and most powerful shark ever to exist.[2] It is also recognized as the largest carnivorous fish known to have existed.[1]"
Megalodon with the great white shark and a human for scale
The 7.8ft (2.4m) skull of the predator, which lived 150 million years ago, could belong to one of the largest pliosaurs ever found, and could measure up to 52.48ft (16m).
They’ve both been known about. This is the largest Pliosaur found to date.
Note: the caption on the first photo in my previous post reads: “Artist’s impression of a Pliosaur dinosaur”. However, the creature is NOT a “dinosaur”. It’s a prehistoric marine reptile.
Well, just go to Dorset and take your own.
I could only find a selection of artists' guesses of the animal - no pictures of the skull they say they found.
The article should have contributed a picture of the skull.
Unfortunatley, they just gave us an artist’s rendering.
So, it being a Pliosaur, there are plenty of pictures of them, just find one and blow it up. I would, but I don’t have that kind of time.
I have seen 20 and 24 now - thanks! I am unimpressed - with them, not you.
There were pictures posted on this thread of the recently discovered skull.
No need to go to Dorset, thanks to evets
Unimpressed with an 8-foot skull from a 50-foot long-extinct sea monster? It's one of the largest skulls of any animal that has ever lived - on Earth.
It was post 24, btw, not 25:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2372119/posts?page=25#25
it’s ok, I understand.
One of the largest skulls, but not the thickest.
That belongs to our president.
Lol! That’s right. I stand corrected.
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