By Laura Geggel, Senior
Writer | August 31, 2017 10:35am ET
CALGARY, Alberta — An ancient sea
monster the size of a car might sound like a behemoth, but it was quite small
compared with its ginormous cousins, some of which reached bus lengths, new
research finds.
The 76-million-year-old plesiosaur—
a Loch Ness monster look-alike that had four flippers and lived during the
dinosaur age — was found in 2009 in the southeastern corner of Alberta, Canada.
It's unclear whether the reptile
is a newfound species, but researchers are sure of one thing: "This fossil
represents the most complete plesiosaur specimen ever found in the Dinosaur
Park Formation of Alberta – a rock unit that is much better known for its rich
assemblage of dinosaurs," said study lead researcher James Campbell, a doctoral
student in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary
in Canada.
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