News of a monster fossil find in the Svaldbard Archipelago north of Norway has come as a great surprise to this typist. Scientists have discovered fossilized skeletons belonging to predatory creatures described as long-necked reptiles resembling a mix of tortoise and snake. Other finds include large-headed and short-necked reptiles.
One gigantic skeleton, nicknamed The Monster, is said to resemble a sea lion with a crocodile skull in the front. It has dinner-plate-sized neck vertebrae, and a lower jaw with teeth the size of bananas.
One gigantic skeleton, nicknamed The Monster, is said to resemble a sea lion with a crocodile skull in the front. It has dinner-plate-sized neck vertebrae, and a lower jaw with teeth the size of bananas.
Well, all I can say is where were these scientists when this typist was doing the singles bars in her twenties? Because I can assure them that the population of male predatory reptiles fitting these descriptions was in great abundance.
Some had fish-like scales and a thick covering of slime. Others were coy and sneaky, not to be trusted. Some were slow and fat-necked with sub-epsilon intelligence quotients, while many, curiously, were in fact invertebrates.
I often wondered how a reptile with no backbone could stand at a bar drinking beer after beer, expecting to attract a female? Who knows? Perhaps they were really just fossils.
