North Sea fossil is deepest dino (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

The first dinosaur fossil discovered in Norway is also the deepest one that has been found anywhere in the world.

The 195-210-million-year-old specimen was found 2.3km (1.4 miles) below the floor of the North Sea by an offshore oil drilling platform.

Norwegian palaeontologist Jorn Harald Hurum, from the University of Oslo, identified the fossil as the knucklebone of a plateosaur.

Details of the discovery are to appear in the Norwegian Journal of Geology.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4950540.stm

This poor fellow claims to be the Norway's *only* dinosaur researcher.:) (It's mostly igneous rock up there...)

[mike_c]

1. ah well, plate tectonics tends to roll that stuff down....

Norway's only dinosaur dude! Oh!

[NYC]

2. That's interesting news.

Thank you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. He's found marine reptiles in Svalbard

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article862346.ece?service=print

and someone else found dinosaur footprints: http://www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/galleri/montre/english/m_iguanodon_e.htm

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Very cool!

http://haldde.unis.no/vaerdata/