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Jurassic Marine Graveyard Yields 'Monster' Fossil
M00NIE writes "A 150 million year old giant fish-like reptile has been unearthed on an Arctic island off Norway, along with many other top marine predators. The find is 'one of the most important new sites for marine reptiles to have been discovered in the last several decades.'" From the article: "'One of them was this gigantic monster, with vertebrae the size of dinner plates and teeth the size of cucumbers,' Joern Hurum, an assistant professor at the University of Oslo, told Reuters on Thursday. 'We believe the skeleton is intact and that it's about 10 meters (33 feet) long,' he told Reuters of the pliosaur, a type of plesiosaur with a short neck and massive skull. The team dubbed the specimen 'The Monster.'"
A minor quibble: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs are giant marine reptiles, not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are exclusively land-dwelling.
That being said, it's obvious the Biblical passages are unlikely to refer to any of these because if they did, then these creatures lived into human times and the bones of such creatures would be found in younger sediments almost up to the present day, rather than deep in Earth history. They'd be a little hard to miss, given how large and distinctive they are.