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Pliosaurus on the hunt: The short-necked relative of the Plesiosaurus belonged to the largest preditory animals of its time. The researcher Jörn Harald Hurum from Oslo's natural history museum believes he has discovered a new species.
Researcher Hurum and colleagues at the excavation site. The dinosaur remains found this summer will be recovered next year.
The giant swimming hunter: When the Pliosaurus lived around 150 million years ago, Spitzbergen was completely submerged by water.
Spitzbergen drifted around 15,000 kilometers over a period of 600 million years. From the South Pole the Svalbard archipelago, to which Spitzbergen belongs, moved almost right to the North Pole.
Lucky man: Researcher Jörn Harald Hurum at the first discovery point last summer.
Pliosaurus on the hunt for Ichthyosaurus.
Ichthyosaurus skull: Well preserved remnants of sea predators are rare.
Last summer's discovery site. Stones mark the outline of the first skeleton. Now Hurum and his colleagues have found another skeleton.
