Canadian miners unearth 70-million-year old sea monster
It's still pretty much encased in rock but based on what we've seen from other similar types of animals this is a large marine reptile," said Dan Spivak of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, this week. The museum, run by the government of Alberta, showcases fossils that have been uncovered in the province, which was a prime stomping ground for dinosaurs millions of years ago.
The skull itself is about a metre long with sharp pointy teeth and a real mean look on its face," Spivak said. He added that it has no living relative on earth.
That was a really really big one," Spivak said. "Those movies tend to put their animals on steroids. So, yes, it was a mosasaur, but it was significantly bigger than a mosasaur would have been in real life."
These things would be swimming around in what would have been a shallow sea that covered a large part of Alberta 70-72 million years ago, feeding on turtles and ammonite and fish - and pretty much anything else that they could have got their teeth into," Spivak said.
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