Saturday, May 02, 2009

Proof of massive sea monster
(02:13) Rough Cut
Apr 3 - Just 800 miles (1287 km) from the North Pole, paleontologists believe they have found the fossilized remains of a massive sea monster that lived 150 million years ago.
Predator X -- a new species of a Pliosaur -- is said to have been the most dangerous creature to have lived under water.
The creature was about 50 feet (15 meters) long, had a head ten feet (3 meters) long and jaws armed with teeth the size of cucumbers.
Dr. Jorn Hurum, and his team of paleontologists discovered Predator X in northern Norway last October and says the new species of a Pliosaur was more fearsome in power than the land-based Tyrannosaurus Rex.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) DR. JORN HURUM, PALEONTOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF NORWAY:
File footage courtesy of History Channel