The biggest marine reptile on record is a 21m-long ichthyosaur which I blogged about last year but this giant fossil of 15 metres long had a bite force of about 16 tonnes, enough to crush four wheel drive car.
The creature's partial skull was dug up in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The Norwegian-led team from the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum thinks it might belong to a new species of pliosaur, a group of large, short-necked reptiles and that "Predator X" lived in the ocean 147 million years ago.
Researchers say the shape and proportional size of the brain resembles that of a great white shark.
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Isn't he just gorgeous ?!
WV = sharkah
The first one they found was called 'the monster' and they thought that could chomp a small car but they've thought upwards with this one.
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Wow...a shark on super steroids...a bit of a mean bugger but then he had to eat as well as do we all.
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