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nightwing1240

(1,996 posts)
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 08:10 AM Dec 2023

Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs

The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset's Jurassic Coast.

It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago.

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"The animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space," says Dr Andre Rowe from Bristol University.

"I have no doubt that this was sort of like an underwater T. rex."

Link = https://www.yahoo.com/news/pliosaur-discovery-huge-sea-monster-060003446.html
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Imagine sailing the waters with this thing in it. Move over Jaws, "We're going to need a bigger boat"? More like bigger
battleship. Wow!

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Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs (Original Post) nightwing1240 Dec 2023 OP
Awesome. Thanks for posting. It's especially interesting TeamProg Dec 2023 #1
Whoa Nelly! Timeflyer Dec 2023 #2
Maybe Nessie's ancestor? hlthe2b Dec 2023 #3
Wow! That BBC show will definitely be must-see. mobeau69 Dec 2023 #4
It doesn't look all too sociable, does it? Judi Lynn Dec 2023 #5
 

TeamProg

(6,630 posts)
1. Awesome. Thanks for posting. It's especially interesting
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 08:43 AM
Dec 2023

since God created this all in SIX days! And first she had to conceive the final product. No beta version!

That’s a hell of a reverse engineering job. Ya know, to make it look like planetary evolution over billions of years.



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