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Specimen PMO 214.136, better known as “Predator X”, is a very large Pliosaurus fossil discovered in Svalbard, Norway, in 2006. Predator X was described in 2012, helping to establish a new species: Pliosaurus funkei, named in honor of Bjørn Funke and his wife May-Liss Knudsen Funke. Bjørn discovered the first P. funkei fossil, which was very funky of him indeed. P. funkei would have been one of the largest marine predators in the Late Jurassic, at about 10 m or 33 ft long. Follow for more whimsic