Dorset England's Dinosaur. (The Discovery of 2023's December Pliosaurus!)
Dorset England's Dinosaur.
(The Discovery of 2023's December Pilosaur)
This land formation was so berated by the rain and sea-shore winds, it was actually enough to finally give way, revealing this long caked animal's skull. Aquatic was the Pliosaur, with every bell and whistle a croc or alligator today just wouldn't have. Less limbs and more flippers. Infact, the animal is actually more lizard or snake than alligator or croc! It has a short neck, teeth that could make any alligator's scales turn pallid with embarrassment, its empire was proud to span the Jurassic to Cretatious, this is the rejuvenated song of the Pliosaur.
Other than making the skulls of newly discovered dinosaurs relevant, the Jurassic Coast is baking with the bones of other species in its undisturbed sediment. South-England's Jurassic Coast is 96 miles of layered history.
This region went through many artistic phases, as it was the desert, then marsh-land, then a sea fit for waters tropical.
And typing of the sea, This is the environment for this new trending "monster" as the headlines are naming it. And to be honest, a crocodile or alligator would maybe call it them same thing we would!
An alligator's got 80 teeth. A croc has up to 100, which ever species it is, but the Saurus of Dorset has 160, in a head that's six feet long. It was bigger than any alligator or croc documented here in our time. Therefore, it was one of the species to swim un bothered by larger animals in the dark blue nectar of the ocean. With it's head kind of reminiscent of a whale, it's flippers like a seal and a sideways mermaid tail, if one of these things could look today's biggest Crocs in the nictating membrane I'm sure Thye'd make sweat drip down their snouts. They would always be submerged of coarse, they were almost 40 feet long, and did their best in the water where they weren't so heavy.
A crocodile can do alot of things,but it just can't beat a pliosaur. The bigger swimmer would take the title of being the watery T Rex if it's era! Being a frequenter where dinosaurs swam it ate other dinosaurs, like crocodiles eat other crocodiles and the same as alligators eat other alligators, and birds eat other species of birds, and fish eat fish, and insects eat other bugs....and lots of eat other of the same animals. The Pliosaur would roll the waters for several millions of years, and span the chapters Jurassic and Cretatious. Every animal deserves the digital headlines, but why is this Pliosaur trending? Simple:it's discovery was a trove into a whole new species!
And that's enough to get a special documentary featuring David Attenborough. The skull's been frozen in dirt for millions of years, so of coarse it dosen't look like any shiney design from a movie-set, but if two friends can find this once in a 150 million year old new species going on a stroll.......isn't that magical enough?
If and his colleage discovering a new dinosaur tells like an adventure flick, then taking it from its stone where it sat will tell the tales of a thriller! Pliosaurs weigh alot, even while being a stage away from fossilizing. It took all the heavy machinery to study this old skull! It took drones, ropes, and cleaning worths of months!
But of course, it would all be worth it, to learn about this new Pliosaur, that would dominate Demember 2023.
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Sources.
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