Friday, October 06, 2006

Dinosaur bones found

It's a new monster discovery on an Artic island off Norway. Scientists have discovered remains that total up to 28 plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs - top marine predators when dinosaurs ruled the land. On the island of Spitsbergen about 800 miles from the North Pole. One of them being a gigantic monster with vertebrae the size of dinner plates and teeth the size of cucumbers. The skeleton believed to be intact is about thirty-three feet long. It's a type of plesiosaur with a short neck and massive skull. This monster may be a distant relative to the famous Loch Ness monster. Scientists better hurry and get thier fossils because the skull smelled like petrol. We all know what that means here come the oil tycoons.

An artist's impression of a 'Monster' fish-like reptile (bottom ), whose fossil was found on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, off Norway, catching a smaller plesiosaur, in this image from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo/Handout/Reuters.

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