TO GO WITH AFP STORY «Abundance of fossils of giant sea reptiles found in Arctic»
File photo dated in 2004 shows Dr Jorn H. Hurum excavating a Kimmerosaurus, a plesiosaur, in the Svalbard archipelago off Norway’s far north. Norwegian researchers, palaeontologists from the University of Oslo, Natural History Museum, led by Dr. Jorn Hurum and Hans Arne Nakrem, have found a wealth of fossils in the Arctic from giant reptiles that swam the seas at the same time as dinosaurs, including a rare predator known as «tyrex of the oceans», a member of the research team said, 05 October 2006. In the Svalbard archipelago off Norway’s far north, the scientists found the skeletons of 28 reptiles that lived 150 million years ago. AFP PHOTO / Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
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