Not elder law: Previously unknown sea monster species discovered

Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric “monster”reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species neverbefore recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday.  Initialexcavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded theremains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of a reptile estimated tomeasure nearly 40 feet long, said Joern Harald Hurum of the Universityof Oslo.  Thereptile appears be the same species as another sea predator whoseremains were found nearby on Svalbard last year. His team describedthose 150-million-year-old remains as belonging to a short-neckedplesiosaur measuring more than 30 feet _ “as long as a bus … withteeth larger than cucumbers.”  The short-necked plesiosaur was a voracious reptile often compared to the Tyrannosaurus rex of the oceans.

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