Researchers believe "Predator X" could have fed on other big reptiles
Posted on 03/17/2009 10:51:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A giant fossil sea monster found in the Arctic had a bite that would have been able to crush a 4x4 car, according to its discoverers. Researchers say the marine reptile, which measured an impressive 15m (50ft) long, had a bite force of about 45 tonnes (33,000lbs) per square inch. The creature's partial skull was dug up last summer in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by a Norwegian-led team. Dubbed "Predator X", it patrolled the oceans some 147 million years ago. Its jaws may have been more powerful than those of a Tyrannosaurus rex, though estimates of the dinosaur's bite vary substantially. It is thought to belong to a new species of pliosaur - a group of large, short-necked reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.
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Researchers believe "Predator X" could have fed on other big reptiles
That would be awesome if creatures like that were alive. Imagine you’re out there fishing in your boat and then WHAM. It never crossed your mind that you were merely a top water bait until those black eyes roll over white, and well, then you hear that high pitch screamin’, I’ll never put on a life jacket again ...
We’re gonna need a bigger boat! :D
Job 41:1
“Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
I got something on my line once in Florida that had my brother very excited. After fighting it and losing I said, “Whatever that was...we didn’t want it in the boat.”
I saw on Animal Planet last night that the are going to have a new series.
“RIVER MONSTERS is a seven-part series produced by Icon Films, which launches with a one-hour special: “Killer Catfish.” Extreme angler Jeremy Wade is on the hunt for freshwater fish with a taste for human flesh. This international excursion through the dark side of the watery depths mixes action and adventure with incredible mysteries, edge-of-the-seat chases and a battle of wills between man and almost supernatural beasts that lurk in the serpentine waterways of the planet, subsisting murderously underwater and growing to truly awesome sizes. Like all the best horror movies, the images are intense and immediate, gritty and real. Wade illustrates to the viewer, like a forensic investigation, exactly how these river monsters are constructed to kill. RIVER MONSTERS is slated to premiere in April 2009.”
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20090113animalplanet01
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"'Ello, Beastie!"
LOLOL!!! Wouldn’t be a fossil thread without Helenius Hideous Thomastus!!!
Wow!!!! I didn’t know they found Paul Bunyan’s skeleton! :D
Cloverfield?
Impossible. The earth is only 6,000 years old.
I fish for catfish. I use heavy duty gear. I have hooked into things in the river that have stripped every inch of line off of my rod and reel. Never even saw the fish/creature. whatever it was. LOL.
Giants I could buy. Giant xylophone players, I dunno....
I was fascinated with a program about “noodling”. I’d had NO idea! I’m really looking forward to this new show, living on the Mississippi as I do.
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