Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Evolutionary dead end

They’ve found a fearsome fossil:

"These animals were awesomely powerful predators," said plesiosaur palaeontologist Richard Forrest. … "A large pliosaur was big enough to pick up a small car in its jaws and bite it in half."

Unfortunately, small cars were scarce for most of the Jurassic, particularly in the sea, and the beast consequently died out.

2 comments:

Matt M said...

There's be plenty of armoured bears to feed upon though.

Matt M said...

There'd be