Word: pliosaur
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...ARCHAEOLOGY 150 million Age, in years, of a fossilized sea creature known as a pliosaur, discovered recently on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, where at least 40 other fossils await excavation 15 Estimated size in meters (49 feet) of a pliosaur from nose to tail. Its jaws were large enough to chomp a small...
...Huggable Dinosaurs? Norwegian scientists last month announced the discovery of the first complete skeleton of a pliosaur, a vicious 10-m-long sea predator with teeth as big as cucumbers [Oct. 16]. Most dinosaurs, however, weren't nearly so scary, as TIME reported in its Sept. 10, 1990, story on paleontologist Jack Horner...
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