BUT... do you also know that in the SEA! there are lots more species that we have yet seen!!
Ever wonder does the sea monster fairy tales told by old people are true!!
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Oldest Antarctic "Sea Monster" Found
85-million-year-old plesiosaur
Fossils from the oldest known Antarctic "sea monster" have been found!!
The discovery of an 85-million-year-old plesiosaur has pushed back the marine reptile's presence in Antarctica by 15 million years.
According to team leader Alexander
Kellner, of the National Museum of Brazil at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the
fragments found don't belong to any group registered on the
continent before, which indicates a greater diversity of the plesiosaurs
in Antarctica than previously suspected.
Fragments
of the vertebrae, head, and flippers suggest the new found plesiosaur
was 20 to 23 feet (6 to 7 meters) long. The bones weren't, however,
enough to identify the species of the plesiosaur.
Plesiosaurs
roamed the seas worldwide between about 205 million to 65 million years
ago, reaching the Southern Hemisphere by the mid-Jurassic. The animals had a range of different sizes and features, but mostly shared small heads, long necks, and big bodies.
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