including the skull and teeth fragments from a large pliosaurus. Dating reveals the fossils are between 145 and 163 million years old, when pliosaurs—a group of long, flippered reptiles—were ...

Here’s what Pliosaurus funkei really looked like: It featured a skull that was about 2.0 to 2.5 meters (6 to 8 feet) in length — not quite twice the size of a T Rex’s skull (1.8 to 2.4 ...

The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex. "They were the top ...

The skull of the other Pliosaurus funkei was a little smaller – between five and six and a half feet long. That's still an impressive head, but not outside the range of what paleontologists have ...

University of Oslo researchers found new teeth, skull fragments, and vertebrae on the Svalbard islands, which have yielded dozens of sea reptile skeletons of the pliosaurus (pictured right).

After using CT scans to create a digital model of the Pliosaurus kevani skull, including reconstructing parts of the lower jaw and cranium that are missing, Foffa and coauthors modeled the extent ...

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The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet and had a 6.5-foot-long skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex. "They were the top predators of the sea," said ...

Researchers found that the Pliosaurus was a female. They discovered this when they analysed the skull crust of the animal. They found that the skull crest was quite low, and that the female skull ...

The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex. "They were the top ...

The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet and had a massive 6.5-foot-long skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex. "They were the top predators of the ...