Dorset pliosaur: ‘Most fearsome predator’ unveiled

BBC News ^ | 7-8-2010 | Rebecca Morelle

[Renfield]

A skull belonging to one of the largest "sea monsters" ever unearthed is being unveiled to the public.

The beast, which is called a pliosaur, has been described as the most fearsome predator the Earth has seen.

The fossil was found in Dorset, but it has taken 18 months to remove the skull from its rocky casing, revealing the monster in remarkable detail.

Scientists suspect the creature, which is on show at the Dorset County Museum, may be a new species or even genus.

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"It was probably the most fearsome predator that ever lived. Standing in front of the skull you can imagine this enormous beast staring straight back at you, fixing you with its binocular vision, and attacking. Just thinking about it raises the hairs on the back of your neck."...

[Renfield]

Pliosaurs were the top predators of the oceans

[Renfield]

Pliosaur ping.

There is a very good video at the site.

[knarf]

Crikey !

She's a beut, mite.

[Nervous Tick]

>> you can imagine this enormous beast staring straight back at you, fixing you with its binocular vision, and attacking

...sounds like my ex-wife. {shudder}

[EQAndyBuzz]

Looks like a magical leoplurodon...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Frightening indeed, but nothing when you visualize Helen Thomas naked!

[ShadowAce]

I hate you

[West Texas Chuck]

Now, THIS would be a frightening predator to see approaching:

[Batman11]

“you can imagine this enormous beast staring straight back at you,”

...thought Dick Obama as he sat across the breakfast table from his lovely Manchelle!

[max americana]

>Standing in front of the skull you can imagine this enormous beast staring straight back at you, fixing you with its binocular vision, and attacking.
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That pretty much describes the moonbat, Obama liberal we have in our accounting department once you say something bad about obama..

[Jonty30]

He kind of reminds me of the crocodile from Peter Pan.

[chicken head]

thats a crocodile skull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq__NOQaVyA&feature=related

[Bitsy]

Sure would fill up the barbie, er?

[Talisker]

Now, THIS would be a frightening predator to see approaching:

You realize she's smiling in that photo, right?

LOL

[Ancient Drive]

no.. no... no.. Tyrannosaurus Rex is the most fearsome.

[Charles Martel]

You realize she's smiling in that photo, right?

I think bared teeth indicate something less pleasant when displayed by a Klingon.

[Maverick68]

b

[massgopguy]

There’s a complete 45” Kronosaur skeleton at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. That’s big enough for me.

[bert]

——Pliosaurs were the top predators of the oceans——

and of Loch Ness

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Looks like a magical leoplurodon...

Does he know the way to Candy Mountain?