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☆ Check out this huge Jurassic sea-monster skull that just went on display
  + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Read previewThe seven-foot-long skull of a fearsome 150-million-year-old sea monster has gone on display in Dorset in the UK, as scientists race to find the rest of its body. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The skull of the 39-foot-long pliosaur, a Jurassic predator described as an "underwater T. Rex," comes complete with 130 razor-sharp teeth. The pliosaur skull discovered in Dorset, UK. "I stake my life the rest of the animal is there," palaeontologist Steve Etches who found the skull, told BBC News .
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☆ Size of Jurassic sea giant found, study says
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
The findings from the Late Jurassic period, though fragmentary, suggest the pliosaur was about twice the size of a killer whale — and move lead study author David Martill closer to redemption. However, he cautioned that an increase in length corresponds with an “exponential increase in volume … placing a biological limit on the upper size pliosaurs could reach.” Smith wasn’t involved in the study. Pliosaurs were “a group of large carnivorous marine reptiles characterized by massive heads, short necks and streamlined tear-shaped bodies,” according to Britannica. Benton wasn’t involved in the study. “Here is a marine reptile as large as a sperm whale, and there’s nothing like it around today.”
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