i saw this documentary on something called lyperidon (SP?) think it was on the BBC. not sure how valid the info was but it was very entertaining. anyways, it was about some kinda giant dinosaur that lived in the ocean. its head looked like a croc's but its body looked like some kinda lockness monster(flippers for feet), the CG in the show was really good, the lyperidon ate a T-REX!!! i thought that was funny. lyperidon suppost to be the biggest carnivor ever at 80ft long. after seeing that, i started to wonder....hmmmm...lvlONSTER!!!!
Who here believes in sea monsters?
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ill try to find where i read this but someone grew larger fish larger in a oxygen rich envirement but cant remember where
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1764065.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1764065.htmi will have to say that there is still many animals that we havent even seen. there are chance that we will discover something eventually
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The creature you're referring to is a type of short-necked plesiosaur known as Liopleurodon, which the BBC Special reported as being 25 meters (about 80 feet) long and weighing in at a staggering 150 tons. Unfortunately for the lovers of enormous predatory beasts, the best paleontological evidence available puts Liopleurodon more in the range of 10 meters (33 feet) which is plenty big but not as enormous as the television folks would have us believe.
There is some evidence that other (possibly even larger) plesiosaur- and mosasaur-type creatures swam the Earth's ancient oceans. Kronosaurus fossils, primarily from Australia, indicate a length of 10 meters (33 feet) or more. The so-called 'Monster of Aramberri', an enormous plesiosaur whose remains were discovered in Mexico back in 1982 may have reached a length of 18 meters (59 feet). The really big mosasaurs (like Tylosaurus proriger) may have reached up to 15 meters (49 feet) or more.
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago), even though the legendary creatures like the Loch Ness 'Monster' are sometimes said to be relict populations of these long-gone beasties.
-Joe
The creature you're referring to is a type of short-necked plesiosaur known as Liopleurodon, which the BBC Special reported as being 25 meters (about 80 feet) long and weighing in at a staggering 150 tons. Unfortunately for the lovers of enormous predatory beasts, the best paleontological evidence available puts Liopleurodon more in the range of 10 meters (33 feet) which is plenty big but not as enormous as the television folks would have us believe.
There is some evidence that other (possibly even larger) plesiosaur- and mosasaur-type creatures swam the Earth's ancient oceans. Kronosaurus fossils, primarily from Australia, indicate a length of 10 meters (33 feet) or more. The so-called 'Monster of Aramberri', an enormous plesiosaur whose remains were discovered in Mexico back in 1982 may have reached a length of 18 meters (59 feet). The really big mosasaurs (like Tylosaurus proriger) may have reached up to 15 meters (49 feet) or more.
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago), even though the legendary creatures like the Loch Ness 'Monster' are sometimes said to be relict populations of these long-gone beasties.
-Joe
Watching a 16' Great White (the LANDLORD) not allow a single tuna to be landed without leaving just a head. For 2 days.
I know we know more about the surface of our moon than our own Oceans who knows what's lurking those Murkey depthsKobi9019;791741; said:
