Seventy-million-year sea reptile found in Antarctica

[WhiteTara]

http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1232193.php/Seventy-million-year_sea_reptile_found_in_Antarctica

Buenos Aires - Argentine and US scientists found the remains of a young plesiosaur fossil - a sea reptile that was probably killed and preserved by a volcanic eruption in Antarctica 70 million years ago.

The Argentine Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that the skeleton was found on Cape Lamb, south-west of the Vega island, near the extreme north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The operation was risky, due to strong winds and extremely low temperatures.

According to investigators, this is one of the most complete plesiosaur skeletons ever found, and without a doubt the best articulated of those found in Antarctica.

The ministry indicated that the plesiosaur remains - which were very well preserved - were loaded onto an Argentine Air Force helicopter equipped to support scientific projects in the area. They were then taken to a museum in the US state of South Dakota for further study.

[MinneapolisMatt]

1. Wow

Science is so cool!

Too bad our government doesn't give a shit.

[leveymg]

2. Think I saw that story before:

Or, was it this guy? Big doggie. Nice boy, down, boy.

[htuttle]

3. Whew! Good, it's dead!

When I read that headline -- well, I won't go into what I was thinking....

[leveymg]

4. You've seen too many '50s monster movies, like me. "It's alive!"

Truly shifted my frame of reference toward some things. "It's alive!"

[elehhhhna]

6. Settle down. It's only 5 feet long. We have bigger 'gators out back in the bayou.

[maine_raptor]

5. It's a HOAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone knows the Earth is only 6,600 years old!!!

Bishop Usher said so after careful calculation based upon the ages of the profits.

And we all know a BISHOP can't be wrong. :sarcasm:

[WhiteTara]

7. especially when he examines the profits of the ages

:rofl: