The huge pliosaur, dubbed "The Monster" by its discoverers, dated from 150 million years ago and boasted 60 dagger-like teeth the size of cucumbers, which it used to rip chunks out of prey.
The 50-foot animal was one of the biggest marine predators to have ever swum and would have been able to take on "anything that moved" in the water.
That's pretty cool. Looks like an early cousin of the Liopleurodons. I put together a short slide show reviewing the elementary details of that kind of critter a couple months ago.
where there are dinosaurs there is usually oil right?
Where there are coastal herbivores, yes, you'll probably find oil. It's the peat from plant waste the critters were eating, not thecritters themselves.
Hooray for photobucket. Here's everything you never wanted to know about pliosaurs...
It's not. Same family, maybe the same genus, but probablya different species. They sound very similar, but this big one came a few million years after L. ferox, it would appear.
Arctic 'Sea Monster'
