dude, was “Predator X” not a cool enough name? high standard *scoff* wait, they’re calling it funkei?! that’s pretty damn cool. i feel a science rap coming on… Sea Monster ‘Predator X’ Gets Official Name It’s official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex. In 2006, scientists unearthed two massive pliosaur skeletons in Svalbard, Norway, a string of islands halfway between Europe and the North Pole. The giant creatures, one of which was dubbed Predator X at the time, looked slightly different from other pliosaurs discovered in England and France over the last century and a half. “They were the top predators of the sea,” said study co-author Patrick Druckenmiller, a paleontologist at the University of Alaska Museum. “They had teeth that would have made a T. rex whimper.” “It’s not just that we found a new species, we’ve been discovering a whole ecosystem,” Druckenmiller said. get funkei with it…

dude, was “Predator X” not a cool enough name? high standard *scoff*

wait, they’re calling it funkei?! that’s pretty damn cool.

i feel a science rap coming on…

Sea Monster ‘Predator X’ Gets Official Name

It’s official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species.

The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex.

In 2006, scientists unearthed two massive pliosaur skeletons in Svalbard, Norway, a string of islands halfway between Europe and the North Pole. The giant creatures, one of which was dubbed Predator X at the time, looked slightly different from other pliosaurs discovered in England and France over the last century and a half.

“They were the top predators of the sea,” said study co-author Patrick Druckenmiller, a paleontologist at the University of Alaska Museum. “They had teeth that would have made a T. rex whimper.”

“It’s not just that we found a new species, we’ve been discovering a whole ecosystem,” Druckenmiller said.

get funkei with it…

Source: news.discovery.com

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    I will admit, when I saw about Predator X on TV, it kind of scared me.
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