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Nearly Sane

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Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
« on: December 10, 2023, 09:03:00 AM »
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Re: Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2023, 12:55:20 PM »
Quite relieved we are talking about a fossil being excavated.

Anyway, my biggest question is what is the "third eye" in the labelled picture of the skull?

Edit: never mind. It tells you in the story.
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Re: Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2023, 05:39:00 PM »
Cool.  With a 2m skull that makes it about the same size as Richard Forrest's Pliosaur from 2009 :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14061347

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Re: Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2023, 07:39:29 PM »
Richard, still going strong fending off the creationists on Twitter

https://x.com/ForrestRichardA?s=20
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