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GreyShuck@feddit.uk to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs

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Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs

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GreyShuck@feddit.uk to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago
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Scientists marvel at the fossilised head of an underwater 'killing machine' from the Jurassic.
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    Big noms

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    Crazy that something so huge must have been quick enough to hunt.

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      It’s the ocean, size isn’t as limiting.

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      Leopard seals, sharks, orcas are all huge and hunt prey?

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      They show a pretty cool theory how the mosasaur might have done it in prehistoric planet.

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    The fact that the cliff face that it was recovered from is eroding at a fast rate really helps in a way, but can also hinder, the team collecting the fossil in recovering the rest of the skeleton, presuming it’s still there. Really excited to see what’s left of it. What a terror of the sea.

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