The characteristic of the prehistoric animal is scaring:
it
had a head like a carnivorous dinosaur and a tail like a fish. With its massive
jaws and serrated teeth, it preyed on other marine reptiles
(referred from National Geographic`s website (Stefan Lovgren for National
Geographic News, 10 November 2005).
Zulma Gasparini was in charge for the research funded by the
National Geographic Society. He is a paleontologist at Argentina's Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
The discovery is described in the journal Science and will be covered
in the December 2005 issue of National Geographic magazine.
View the sea monster with the nickname on National Geographic`s website: National Geographic News - Sea
Monster.
In 2001 a fossil of a huge crocodile was found by scientists in Sahara. It was also a giant
creature. The unearthed remains of an ancient crocodile indicated that it was as long as
a city bus and as heavy as a small whale. This creature, which lived 110
million years ago, during the Middle Cretaceous, grew as long as 40 feet (12
meters) and weighed as much as eight metric tons (17,500 pounds). Its jaws alone
were nearly six feet (1.8 meters) long and its more than 100 teeth so powerful
that the colossal creature probably consumed small dinosaurs as well as fish,
the researchers say (referred from D.L. Parsell, National Geographic News,
25 October 2001).
Stein Morten Lund, 14 November 2005
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