Huge skull of ancient sea monster found

The times ^ | 10/27/09 | The times

[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.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Almost as big a mouth as 0bama.

[JennysCool]

Ancient Sea Monster Ping!

[z3n]

LEOPLURODON ping!

[TruthConquers]

Sandworm??

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Huge skull of ancient sea monster found"

Well if you have found the damned thing - show us a !@#$%^&*ing picture of it then!

[Snickering Hound]

[Frenchtown Dan]

There is a picture of it in the link.

[Darkwolf377]

Another day, another Rosie O’Donnell sighting.

[z3n]

[SJSAMPLE]

“Candy Mountain!!!”

[Mr. K]

is it a Magical LEOPLURODON ?

[fivecatsandadog]

GODZIRRA!

[ETL]

Ichthyosaurs have been known about for over 100 years.

[D Rider]

...a sea monster so large they say it could have eaten a Tyrannosaurus rex for breakfast.

What kind of Breakfast?. A continental breakfast, a farmers breakfast, what are we really talking here?

[D Rider]

...a sea monster so large they say it could have eaten a Tyrannosaurus rex for breakfast.

What kind of Breakfast?. A continental breakfast, a farmers breakfast, what are we really talking here?

[Pistolshot]

The fossil head is 8 feet long, suggesting that the beast measured up to 54 feet from the tip of its massive, crocodile-like snout to the end of its muscular tail, making it one of the largest specimens ever found.

I wonder how the Arc got away.

[andy58-in-nh]

I knew it was only a matter of time...

[beefree]

We want to see a photo of the skull, not a drawing of what an artist believes it looked like.

[ETL]

RE: Ichthyosaurs have been known about for over 100 years.

Oops! The beast is a "pliosaur". It apparently ate Ichthyosaurs for breakfast!

An artist's interpretation of the gigantic
pliosaur hunting ichthyosaurs, dolphin-
shaped marine reptiles.

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.

The fossil head is 8 feet long, suggesting that the beast measured up to 54 feet from the tip of its massive, crocodile-like snout to the end of its muscular tail, making it one of the largest specimens ever found.

The skull belongs to a pliosaur, one of a group of giant aquatic reptiles which roamed the warm seas over what is now southern Britain 150 million years ago.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569778,00.html?test=latestnews

[evets]

[colorado tanker]

In the drawing it's enjoying a tasty breakfast of ichthyosaurs, which if you can believe it almost look cute. I guess that's why they are pliosaur meat.

[IrishCatholic]

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.

[ETL]

Megalodon

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

[ETL]

Artist's impression of a Pliosaur dinosaur
Photo: MARK WITTON

Dr Richard Forrest with the Pliosaur fossil
Photo: BNPS

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).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/6444098/Skull-of-pliosaur-that-could-have-bitten-a-car-in-half-found-on-Britains-Jurassic-Coast.html

[Frenchtown Dan]

They’ve both been known about. This is the largest Pliosaur found to date.

[ETL]

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.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Well, just go to Dorset and take your own.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"There is a picture of it in the link."

I could only find a selection of artists' guesses of the animal - no pictures of the skull they say they found.

[ETL]

See post 25 on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2372119/posts?page=25#25

[ETL]

Also 20, who had beaten me to it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2372119/posts?page=20#20

[Frenchtown Dan]

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 am Richard Brandon]

I have seen 20 and 24 now - thanks! I am unimpressed - with them, not you.

[ETL]

it being a Pliosaur, there are plenty of pictures of them, just find one and blow it up.

There were pictures posted on this thread of the recently discovered skull.

[beefree]

No need to go to Dorset, thanks to evets

[ETL]

I have seen 20 and 24 now - thanks! I am unimpressed - with them

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

[Frenchtown Dan]

it’s ok, I understand.

[Frenchtown Dan]

One of the largest skulls, but not the thickest.
That belongs to our president.

[ETL]

Lol! That’s right. I stand corrected.

[12chachacha]

“The fossil head is 8 feet long”. Sheesh, John Kerry's Easter Island head is bigger than that.

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[null and void]

Almost as big a mouth as 0bama.

As you say...

[Frenchtown Dan]

My, what big teeth you have.

Jeez, I know I have a picture of a baboon somewhere that could be her twin.

[CaptRon]

But still not large enough to eat Obama’s ego.

[Frenchtown Dan]

“Dinosaur experts in Dorset, England, are examining the fossilized skull of a sea monster so large they say it could have been eaten by 0bamaroids ego”.

[null and void]

The resemblance is bigger on the other end...

[Trillian]

I’d rather look at that than helen thomas LOL.
What a perfectly shaped heart though.

[fivecatsandadog]

A Denny’s breakfast skillet, 3 over easy, whole wheat, cottage fries. Refill? Sure, yeah.... thanks.

[fivecatsandadog]

The little victims look like they’re having way too much fun. SM ichthyosaurs ?

[fivecatsandadog]

Remember the morlocks in the movie, The Time Machine? Rod Taylor, mmm mmm mmm What a babe.