Over 20 years ago, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs TV documentary series showed a 25-metre long Liopleurodon. This sparked heated debates over the size of this pliosaur as it was thought to have been wildly overestimated and more likely to have only reached an adult size of just over six metres long. An artist’s impression of the pliosaur. Photo credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth The speculation was set to continue, but now a chance discovery in an Oxfordshire museum has led to University of Portsmouth palaeontologists publishing a paper on a similar species potentially reaching a whopping 14.4 metres - twice the size of a killer whale. Professor David Martill from the University of Portsmouth’s School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, said: “I was a...
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