Farmer Finds Sea Creature Jaw

An Australian farmer tending to his daily tasks recently discovered the gigantic fossilized jaw of a 100-million-year-old sea creature.

“I was poisoning prickly acacia and saw some objects shining in the distance,” Robert Hacon, a farmer near Neila in Queensland, said in a written statement. “At first glance I thought they were fossilized mussel shells, so I drove away. Ten minutes later my curiosity got the better of me and I turned back. I jumped out of my buggy and cast my eyes upon these enormous pieces of bone. I thought to myself ‘my gosh, what have I got!’”

What he had was an extinct carnivorous marine reptile known as Kronosaurus queenslandicus, which dominated Australia’s great inland sea during the Lower Cretaceous period. The creature’s crocodile-like skull was bigger than the skull of a T. rex, and its curved teeth were the size of bananas.

Dr. Timothy Holland, curator at the Kronosaurus Korner museum, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the fossil was the most complete mandible of a Kronosaurus queenslandicus ever found. S