Science / Medicine : Sea-Going Reptile Unearthed

University of Alabama geologists say they have discovered the 70-million-year-old fossilized remains of a gigantic sea creature. Alabama Museum of Natural History Curator Kenneth Gaddy said the fossilized bones belong either to a 60-foot mosasaur or to an entirely new species of seagoing reptile that swam the seas of what today is gently rolling Lowndes County farmland about 50 miles southwest of Montgomery, Ala.

Gaddy said scientists believe the fossil is between 60 million and 70 million years old because of the age of the sediments that surrounded it.