A 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) marine reptile from the dino-era sea creature group — called pliosaurs – has been unearthed at a 150-million-year-old graveyard recently on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard archipelago of Norway.
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Dubbed by an artist brilliantly in the ‘National Geographic’ site, the Monster shown here leaps from the water to snare a smaller reptile known as a plesiosaur.
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The Norwegian islands lie about 600 miles (966 kilometers) from the North Pole.
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The final resting place of the fossil — Monster on the island of Spitsbergen – has been traced by an outline of small rocks. The labels in the picture show the place where different parts of the massive pliosaur have been revealed in the shale.
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This is the skull of an ichthyosaur — a marine reptile resembling a dolphin. It is prepared for study after been found in the Arctic island chain of Svalbard.
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The artist’s interpretation shows the monster in action, hunting a pair of ichthyosaurs.
Source: National Geographic News
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