Norwegian researchers have uncovered what they believe to be one of the most significant marine dinosaur sites in recent decades. In only two weeks, the scientists have found the remains of 28 plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs on the polar island of Spitsenberg. Jörn Harald Hurum of the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum told the BBC he can't walk more than 100 meters without finding a new skeleton.

The impressive breadth of specimens, though, is being overshadowed by what Hurum's team has termed "the Monster." "One of them was this gigantic monster, with vertebrae the size of dinner plates and teeth the size of cucumbers," he said. This 150-million- year-old monster, or to paleontologists, Plesiosaur, was the Tyrannosaurus Rex of the seas, except bigger. About the size of a bus, the reptile's two-meter-long head was big enough to have swallowed an adult human whole. Beware Scotland, the deadly predator is rumoured to be a distant relative of the Loch Ness monster.

Fragments of plesiosaurs have been unearthed in England, Russia and Argentina, but Hurum believes this could be the first complete skeleton ever found. "We are quite sure it is complete", he told Associated Press, "we have the head, and can see about six meters of vertebrae before it disappears into the ground." Animal carcasses are food for other animals and usually get torn apart, making full skeletons a rare find.