{"id":1826,"date":"2010-12-23T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T04:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2010-12-23T20:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T04:33:51","slug":"pliosaur-the-sea-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"Pliosaur- The Sea Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The innermost secrets of a colossal “sea monster” skull are being revealed by one of the UK’s most powerful CT scanners.<\/p>\n

The X-rays are helping to build up a 3D picture of this ferocious predator, called a pliosaur, which terrorized the oceans 150m years ago.<\/p>\n

The 2.4m-long (7.9ft) fossil skull was recently unearthed along the UK’s Jurassic coast, and is thought to belong to one of the biggest pliosaurs ever found.<\/p>\n

The scans could establish if the giant is a species that is new to science.<\/p>\n

Pliosaurs are aquatic reptiles belonging to the plesiosaur family. Paddle-like limbs would have powered their huge bulky bodies through the water, and they had enormous crocodile-like heads, packed full of razor-sharp teeth.<\/p>\n

\"Pliosaur Pliosaurs were the top predators of the oceans<\/span><\/div>\n

The skull, which was unearthed by a local fossil collector and then purchased by Dorset Country Council using Heritage Lottery Funds, would have belonged to one of the most fearsome beasts the seas have ever seen.<\/p>\n

asured 10-16m (33-52ft) in length and weighed between seven and 12 tonnes.<\/p>\n

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The fossil, which comprises a lower jaw and upper skull, is currently being removed from its rocky casing by preparator Scott Moore-Fay.<\/p>\n

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