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Colossal 'sea monster' unearthed
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| 27 October 2009
| Rebecca Morelle
Posted on 10/26/2009 11:28:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The fossilised skull of a colossal "sea monster" has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast. The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull is 2.4m long, and experts say it could belong to one of the largest pliosaurs ever found: measuring up 16m in length.
The fossil, which was found by a local collector, has been purchased by Dorset County Council. It was bought with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and it will now be scientifically analysed, prepared and then put on public display at Dorset County Museum. Palaeontologist Richard Forrest told the BBC:
"I had heard rumours that something big was turning up. But seeing this thing in the flesh, so to speak, is just jaw dropping. It is simply enormous."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: creation; cryptobiology; evolution; fossil; godsgravesglyphs; jpb; jurassic; palaeontology; pliosaur; seamonster
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To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv
Do they expect to find the whole skeleton?
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:29:40 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: All
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:29:57 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:35:19 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Westlander
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:37:07 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Westlander
Whew. I was afraid someone was going to post her in her bikini. I’m not sure I could survive that.
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:38:34 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: GeronL
“Dr Edmonds believes that the rest of the giant may still be entombed in the rock, but it could take decades for it to emerge.”
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:38:55 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
It could have taken a human in one gulp
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:40:58 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: OldDeckHand
52 feet (16 m)
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posted on
10/26/2009 11:51:37 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
We need some of those in the Potomac!
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:14:56 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
10/27/2009 3:52:57 AM PDT
by
hwj_chim
To: JoeProBono
whoa. decades. Life’s work for some archaeologist?
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posted on
10/27/2009 6:13:32 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: JoeProBono
Is this real or photoshopped?
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posted on
10/27/2009 6:17:46 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: GeronL
Don’t become an archeologist. You’ll just spend your life brushing the teeth of old monsters.
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posted on
10/27/2009 10:24:04 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all the while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
10/27/2009 10:29:24 AM PDT
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GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: JoeProBono
You know, that thing bears a striking resemblance to a penguin......
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posted on
10/27/2009 10:33:19 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
To: GeronL
They expect to find one alive and living in Loch Ness
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posted on
10/27/2009 10:38:28 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Quotes of the century: 2001 "Lets Roll"..... 2009 "You Lie")
To: GeronL; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
10/27/2009 4:40:23 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Hot Tabasco
I think it looks more like a bottle nosed dolphin.
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posted on
10/27/2009 6:03:55 PM PDT
by
marsh2
To: Westlander
They said sea monster, not sea hag...
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posted on
10/27/2009 6:07:10 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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