A giant marine reptile. which terrorised the seas roughly 150million years ago, has finally been named and demystified. Previously dubbed Predator X, the big-headed creature has been officially named Pliosurus funkei, according to the Norwegian Journal of Geology.
The reptile spanned about 40feet and had a 6.5-foot-long skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus Rex. Fossilized remains of two pliosaurs - short-necked, large-mawed, four-paddled reptiles -- were uncovered by a Norwegian team on the Artic island of Svalbard between 2004 and 2012. Initial speculation hinted at a predator with a head twice the size of a T.Rex.
Preliminary estimates put the size of Predator X at 45 tonnes and 50 feet long. But a susequent investigation by paleontologists Espen Knutsen, Patrick Druckenmiller and Jorn Hurum revealed a reptile with more modest features, reports technology blog i09.
Still, they were bigger than the largest living apex predator, the killer whale, which tops out at 30 feet long
Preliminary estimates put the size of Predator X at 45 tonnes and 50 feet long. But a susequent investigation by paleontologists Espen Knutsen, Patrick Druckenmiller and Jorn Hurum revealed a reptile with more modest features, reports technology blog i09.
Still, they were bigger than the largest living apex predator, the killer whale, which tops out at 30 feet long
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