160 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Found
Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2004, 06:00 CDT
Norweigian dinosaur researcher Jorn Hurum says he has found fossils of two species of dinosaurs that are 160 million years old.
Hurum said the fossils of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, found in Norway's polar island of Svalbard, were in extremely good condition. He said the area where they were found was untouched and appeared to be a paleontological treasure, Aftenposten reported Thursday.
Hurum said the icthyosaur fossils were 13 to 16 feet long while the plesiosaur find could be from a beast 32.8 feet long.
It is incredible to come to a spot where no one has looked for such fossils and suddenly they start sprinkling out of the side of the mountain. There are bones everywhere, Hurum said.
The origins of the dig stem from an accidental find, when some students stumbled across a skeleton two years ago, the newspaper said.
Luckily they didn't take it as a souvenir but covered it again. I heard about it last year. So when I traveled up three weeks ago I only knew about one skeleton, Hurum said.
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