Fossils Of Giant Marine Lizards Found In Arctic

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OSLO (AFP) -- Norwegian scientists have discovered fossils in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard of a hitherto unknown species of giant marine lizards who lived 160 million years ago, one of the scientists announced.



"We have found the remains of at least ten skeletons spread across a surface equivalent to two football fields," Joern Hurum, a geology professor at the University of Oslo, told AFP.



The fossils, which according to Hurum date from the Mesozoic Era (lasting from 230 million to 65 million years before our era), are of plesiosauruses, large marine reptiles with paddlelike limbs, and of an until now unknown ichthyosaurus species: large reptiles that resemble sharks.



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