Fossil Hunter Finds Giant Sea Monster

Colossal pliosaur was big enough to snack on T. Rex
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 28, 2009 2:36 AM CDT
Fossil Hunter Finds Giant Sea Monster
Paleontologist Richard Forrest with the jaw bone of a fossilized pliosaur found on the southern coast of England.   (AP Photo/Chris Ison/PA Wire)

A sea monster big enough to have munched on T. Rex has been found by an amateur fossil collector scouring Britain's south coast. The collector gathered chunks of the prehistoric beast's 8-foot-long skull as they fell from a cliff face over several years. Paleontologists believe the pliosaur skull is the largest and most complete ever discovered.

"These things were powerful enough to bite a small car in half," a paleontologist told the Independent. "It would take a human in one gulp. Compared to this beast, T. Rex was a kitten." Experts believe the rest of the creature, whose length from tip to tail is estimated to be at least 50 feet, remains embedded in the cliff.
(More dinosaurs stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X