Entire predator found - "Tyrannosaurus Rex of the sea"

aftenposten ^ | oct 2006

[dubie]

[Argus]

At first I thought this was yet another thread about Mark Foley.

[trisham]

"The Pliosaur is the sea's answer to Tyrannosaurus Rex, just with an even bigger head. Imagine a creature nearly as big as a bus. With teeth the size of cucumbers. Visualize these teeth in a jaw where a grown man can lie down on the tongue and be swallowed whole. This is the beast that we have now found on Svalbard," said a jubilant Jørn Harald Hurum, associate professor at the Natural History Museum at UiO.

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The scale drawing is a wee bit disappointing.

[Timbo64]

But the earth is only 6,000 years old! /s

[Quark2005]

Sensational Find!

[dubie]

[smartymarty]

Oh My Gosh! On the SLOPE of a mountain? Is it possible it was a victim of the great flood?

[Mr. Mojo]

"The Pliosaur is the sea's answer to Tyrannosaurus Rex, just with an even bigger head. Imagine a creature nearly as big as a bus. With teeth the size of cucumbers. Visualize these teeth in a jaw where a grown man can lie down on the tongue and be swallowed whole."

Formidable beast.

Coming to a movie theater soon.....

[pabianice]

Chicago records indicate it voted for Kerry in 2004...

[Timbo64]

Thank you for making me want to take one of my Spyderco knives out of my gun safe and stab out my eyes. She is a beast! A beast I tell you!

[Gator101]

"Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Sea"???

Maybe Tyrannosaurus Rex was the "Pliosaur of the Land"?

[veracious]

Another name for Leviathan?

[battlegearboat]

fish on

[Myrddin]

Oh My Gosh! On the SLOPE of a mountain? Is it possible it was a victim of the great flood?,/p>

If the rock is sedimentary, it is more likely that it was once a sea bed that was pushed upward to become a mountain. Next time you pass through the Salt Lake valley, take a look at the Wasatch range. Definitely sedimentary pushed up into a mountain.

[smartymarty]

Well, it certainly had to be some kind of cataclysmic event to have become fossilized, right?

[Al Simmons]

"The scale drawing is a wee bit disappointing."

Fragmentary remains found in the UK, of another Jurassic Pliosaur, Liopleurodon (featured in the BBC's 'Walking with Dinosaurs' program), suggest a maximum size for that animal of perhaps 60 feet in length, with a 15-foot head.

So they got whale-size...there were also some Cretaceous Mosasaurs that got close to that size.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Getready]

Did they find all of the skeletons within close proximity of
one another? Would it be a feeding zone that was inundated
and the fossils preserved that way? What type of event
could cause that many animals to be buried so quickly?
Was there evidence of volcanism, or tectonic shift? Was
it sedimentary rock?, etc...the brief news report didn't
mention any of that...would be fascinating...

[MeanWestTexan]

"Well, it certainly had to be some kind of cataclysmic event to have become fossilized, right?"

No. Dying (for whatever reason) and sinking into muck works real well, too.

Not really on the same scale of things, but after the recent rains changed the course of the creek that goes through our ranch, I found a calf half in the mud -- that look like she had just died and was my missing calf.

Well, she had my great, great, great, great (yes, 4 greats) grandfather's brand on her.