190 Million-Year-Old Sea Monster Identified

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    • Publish Date: Sep 18 2017 3:42PM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 18 2017 3:42PM
190 Million-Year-Old Sea Monster Identified
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A new species of 190 million-year- old giant sea monster has been identified by scientists, that may shed light on the evolution of 'super predators' in the Jurassic period.

The fossilised bones of the long-necked marine reptile, named Arminisaurus schuberti, were excavated in the early 1980s in Germany.

Plesiosaurs were amongst the most successful marine predators from the Age of Dinosaurs. Some, such as the famous Liopleurodon, were colossal predators up to 15 metres long," said Sven Sachs, a researcher at the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld in Germany.

"They were the equivalent of White sharks and Killer whales in the oceans today," Sachs added.

By comparison, Arminisaurus was small, only about 3-4 metres long, and probably hunted fish, squid and other small prey in the ancient seas that covered Germany during the Jurassic period, researchers said.

The preserved bones of Arminisaurus were broken up by mining machinery, but enough was recovered to classify the animal as an early relative of later Jurassic plesiosaur super predators known as pliosaurids.

About 40 per cent of the skeleton was recovered, including parts of the skull, vertebrae and limb bones, researchers said.

"Arminisaurus is significant because it dates from a time frame early in the Jurassic, during which we have very few identifiable plesiosaur fossils," said Benjamin Kear, Curator at Uppsala University in Sweden.

"Only two other plesiosaur fossils have ever been named from this mysterious interval in plesiosaurian evolution, making Arminisaurus a very important new addition for the global record of the group," Kear said.

The study also showed that Arminisaurus shared features with plesiosaurs that lived 50 million years later, during the Cretaceous period.

This information will help unravel the radiation of these bizarre marine reptiles, and shed light on the early diversity of the gigantic pliosaurids. The findings appear in the journal Alcheringa

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Hemalatha.G Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary Scho

Wow! Amazing! 190 million old! Veru interesting! I want see its images.

P.S Geethanjali Nalanda Vidya Niketan, Vijayawada

Interesting !! I really love to know about Dinosaurs and I love history.

Shweta Ullala National Academy For Learning

Very interesting!

R.Lokeshwaran Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Well !!!!! Quite informative and interesting . Thanks for the information

TANAY VASISHTHA The Millennium School, Lucknow

i love to search about monster thank you times of india #awesome

Dilsher Singh Chatha Bhavan Vidyalaya Panchkula

Very interesting

CHHAVI RANA RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

Amazing :D

Roma Ramcoumar Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Really ????? amazing !!!!!!

VRINDA P MGM Model School, Varkala, Trivandrum

interesting!!

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