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To: epsteinbd who wrote (15893)	7/15/2002 6:36:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

Such a touching event for you.... Israeli paleontologists have exhumed one of your ancestors, Mosasaurus Craepsteinii: Marine reptile fossil found in Negev returns home PATRICIA GOLAN Jul. 14, 2002 A 70 million-year-old giant marine reptile fossil discovered in the Zin phosphate mine by a graduate of the geology department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1994 will soon be on display to the public. According to Prof. Chaim Benjamini, head of the BGU Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, the rare discovery is the fossilized head and neck of a Mosasaurus that inhabited the open ocean which covered the Middle East 70 million years ago. "It was a carnivore the size of a whale, perhaps 20 meters in length," explained Benjamini. "It had a rather alligator-like head with a long snake-like neck. It probably ate fish and invertebrates, and had teeth the size and shape of ice cream cones. It was among the largest of the marine animals of that period, a real monster." [...] jpost.com