In recent years, he and his colleagues made a series of startling discoveries in the archipelago.
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- It's pretty raw
In 2007 found Hurum & Co. the world's largest and most dangerous havøgle pliosaur - "Predator X 'on Svalbard.
Now a lot of evidence that he and the scientists have made another sensational discovery - the remains of an abnormal fish lizard.
- This fish lizard does not look normal out. The skeleton is the strangest and most exciting I have ever found by type. The fossil we found almost no flippers at all, and something similar has ever described, "Hurum told Dagbladet.
Bone remains excavated from the desert Janus mountain.
- This may be the great scientific sensation here. It's pretty raw, "Hurum the newspaper, and he adds it can take years of work before it has been found properly investigated.
Several new discoveries
The team has also made another very exciting discoveries.
They have found a large bone from a swan-lizard. Leg is about 40 centimeters long. And if they find the rest of the skeleton can tell us how this species appeared from the stomach and up.
- What we hope is that this skeleton will provide us an indication including the length of the neck, "Hurum to forskning.no.
Some areas on Svalbard is so full of great old bones that you almost trip over them.
One goal of researchers in the years to dig out two five-meter-long fish lizards that lived in the waters in the north between 140 and 150 million years ago. The two shell were found last year, but is under several tons of shale to be moved.
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