A huge sea reptile was dug up a couple years ago in the Arctic island chain of Svalbard. The 150 million-year-old fossilized Jurassic-era “sea monster” was found on Spitspergen. Now it have been excavated, studied and virtually reconstructed. Measuring about 50ft from nose to tail, the short-necked leviathan is a “pliosaur”.
Pliosaurs were a short-necked form of plesiosaur, a group of extinct reptiles that lived in the world’s oceans during the age of the dinosaurs…A pliosaur’s body was tear drop-shaped with two sets of powerful flippers which it used to propel itself through the water.
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