Scientists from the University of Oslo (Norway) have unearthed in the frozen soil of the island of Spitsbergen, near the North Pole, the remains of a gigantic marine reptile that has been baptized as Predator X. All the data suggest that it is the most dangerous large predator that has existed on the planet.
Analyzing more than 20,000 fragments of its skeleton, paleontologists have concluded that the animal was a Jurassic pliosaur with 15 meters of wingspan, weighed 45 tons and its head was twice the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex . In addition, in its jaw it had teeth more than 30 centimeters long and its bite was ten times more powerful than that of any modern animal . As for its brain, the scans revealed that it was small and elongated but specialized to turn the reptile into a true "killing machine" . In short, the pliosaur was "the terror of the Jurassic seas" more than 140 million years ago , capable of swallowing an animal the size of a car in a single bite.
