Posted on 12/04/2007 10:27:22 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Prehistoric sea ‘monster’ discovered
12/4/07
OSLO, Norway - Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday.
Initial excavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of a reptile estimated to measure nearly 40 feet long, said Joern Harald Hurum of the University of Oslo.
"It seems the monster is a new species," he told The Associated Press.
The reptile appears be the same species as another sea predator whose remains were found nearby on Svalbard last year. His team described those 150-million-year-old remains as belonging to a short-necked plesiosaur measuring more than 30 feet — "as long as a bus ... with teeth larger than cucumbers."
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appears be the same species as another sea predator whose remains were found nearby on Svalbard last year.
Can't quite keep their story straight, can they?
ROFL.
But I thought it was going to be a Hildabeast joke. With the bug eyes, fish mouth and all.
Please, no Helen Thomas pix.
Nessies distant cousin? *ping* to the UT...
Must have been a boon for the paleontologists...that has to be the best preserved specimen ever found. 70 years of pickling in the making.
A bus-sized prehistoric “monster” has been discovered at the Kennedy Compound.....
*choke* ROTF!
Good thing it was toast in my mouth and not coffee. It would be a really big mess to clean.
Thanks. I needed a laugh. I’m taking myself too seriously today.
I was expecting pics of Rosie.
Too late
Litter/Helen Thomas pix removal on this thread by Sidebar Moderator. Helping keep Freeper eyeballs safely in their sockets since 2001.
LOL!
hurl
Bless you and your visual charity.
Those who beg not for Medusa’s image risk turning into stone
I'd have to rent a harpoon for the afternoon.
I heard Medusa saw a White House press conference and turned to stone when the camera turned to Helen.
LOL!
Now we know what destroyed the dinosaurs.
And why we have so many good fossils for them.
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