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Monster of the Deep

• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway

• An artist's interpretation of the gigantic pliosaur catching a pterosaur in mid-flight.
• An artist's interpretation of the 'monster' catching a smaller plesiosaur.
• Size comparisons of a killer whale, a blue whale, the new pliosaur and a human diver.
• An artist's interpretation of the gigantic pliosaur hunting ichthyosaurs, dolphin-shaped marine reptiles.
• Size comparison of the 'monster' pliosaur, an earlier discovered pliosaur called Kronosaurus and a human diver.
• The full skeleton of the pliosaur, with excavated bones in red.
• A partially reconstructed front flipper of the pliosaur.
• Lead paleontologist Joern Hurum's daughter compared to the pliosaur's front flipper.
• Researcher Lena Kristiansen prepares a specimen in the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo.
• Field work in snow at the pliosaur excavation site on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic.
• The extent of the pliosaur's fossilized bones, as outlined by rocks on the Spitsbergen mountainside.
• Paleontology student Linn Kristin Novis and paleontologist Patrick Druckenmiller of the University of Alaska discussing a finding near an excavation site on Spitsbergen.