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Fossil sea monster's bite makes T-Rex look feeble


A giant fossil sea monster found in the Arctic and known as Predator X had a bite that would make T-Rex look feeble. The 50 ft (15 meter) long Jurassic era marine reptile had a crushing 33,000 lbs per square inch bite force. It's much more powerful than T-Rex, the pliosaur reptile that would have been a top marine predator. Tyrannosaurus Rex was a top land carnivore among dinosaurs.

The scientists reconstructed the predator's head and estimated the force by comparing it with the similarly-shaped jaws of alligators in a park in Florida.



Predator X's bite was more than 10 times more powerful than any modern animal and four times the bite of a T-Rex, it said of the fossil, reckoned at 147 million years old. Alligators, crocodiles and sharks all now have fearsome bites. The teeth of the pliosaur, belonging to a new species, were a foot (30 cms) long. The pliosaur, estimated to have weighed 45 metric tons, was similar to but had more massive bones than another fossil sea monster found on Svalbard in 2007, also estimated at 50 feet long and the largest pliosaur to date. Among other findings were that the pliosaur had a small thin brain shaped like that of a great white shark.