by wildcherry on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | Life, Pets & Animal

Measuring some 50 feet (15 meters) in length, the bone-crunching giant sea monster represents one of the largest marine reptiles ever known, according to a team led by Jørn Hurum of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway.

Fossil hunters found the fossils of the giant sea monster on a remote Arctic island. The 150-million-year-old creature was first discovered in 2006 on Spitsbergen, part of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, in a polar wasteland littered with fossilized sea reptiles .

Calling the latest find “the T. rex of the ocean,” Hurum said it “would have eaten other marine reptiles and maybe some of the huge bony fishes that were around at that time.”

Full story:National Geographic

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