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Anyone still holding on to the hope that 25 m pliosaurs really existed, you need to hear this. It comes from a scientist working on a fossil pliosaur found in Mexico, nicknamed the Monster of Aramberri. The beast itself is around 15-18 m long, which is impressive in itself, but it's just a juvenile! It could easily have reached the length of 20 m as it grew up.
Not impressed yet? Then get this: the monster had been killed by another pliosaur by a bite right through the skull. It had left a clear mark of a tooth so big that no known pliosaur specimen sports such weapons. The tooth was about 40 cm (1.3 ft) long, and that's not including the root! Based on the tooth size the killer may well have been within the 25 m estimate. And since we're unlikely to find the largest ever specimen represented in the fossil record, there may have been bigger ones out there still!
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