Apatosaurus was a giant reptile marine animals that live to 150 million years ago in prehistoric times that have become extinct, including the animals that live together in the Jurassic dinosaur. On October 5 last, a scientist from Norway announced that they had found fossils of sea animals Apatosaurus prehistoric giants in Arctic Svalbard archipelago. According to the news, this is the first fossil Apatosaurus skeleton found intact manicured man today.
A character from the museum of natural history University of Oslo, the Norwegian said, that the researchers found fossils of a giant Apatosaurus with a length of approximately 10 meters above the island of Spitsbergen Svalbard archipelago about 500 km north of mainland Norway in August. Currently, there are some fossils were buried in a mountainside that is still untapped entirety.
One of the fossils, an assistant professor at the University of Oslo said that he believes this is the first discovery of fossil fossils Apatosaurus intact. According to him, "We are confident that the full and complete fossilized skeleton. We've managed to dig up the skull, even saw some of the vertebrae along approximately six feet sticking out on the surface. "
Apatosaurus is one of the vertebrate animals (vertebrate animals) are the most ferocious sea on the Dinosaur era. Therefore scientists he called "the ruler of the ocean creatures." Equivalent to the length of its body size of a bus, teeth larger than cucumbers, broad snout can swallow one adult. "
At last in 1994, scientists from Bristol University have excavated a fossil Apatosaurus skeleton is almost intact in the southeast of England. Similar fossils are also found in Argentina and Russia and other regions, but not a complete skeleton. Judging from the size or angle on the whole, the fossils found in it can be said to be very rare.
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