Farmer Uncovers Prehistoric Sea Monster Fossil

Photo Credit:An artist’s impression of the Kronosaurus. Photo: Lisa Wallace/Kronosaurus Korner via The Brisbane Times.

A Queensland, Australia farmer made an amazing discovery recently as he was working his property. 

Hacon uncovering the jawbone of the Kronosaurus.

“I was out poisoning prickly Acacia and saw some objects shining in the distance,” Robert Hacon of Euraba Station said.

“At first glance I thought they were fossilised mussel shells so I drove away. Ten minutes later my curiosity got the better of me and I turned back.”

To Mr. Hacon’s surprise he had found the fossilized jawbone of a Kronosaurus Queenslandicus, an 36 foot long apex predator that lived in the great inland sea of Australia between 110 and 115 million years ago.

Dr Timothy Holland with the mandible of the Kronosaurus. Photo: Patricia Woodgate

According to the Brisbane Times, the Queenslandicus had a crocodile-like head, a body with four powerful flippers, jaws twice as powerful as those of a saltwater crocodile and curved teeth the size of bananas.

Hacon was was quick to reach out to the curator of Richmond’s Kronosaurus Korner Museum, Dr Timothy Holland.

“The specimen represents the most complete mandible of a Kronosaurus Queenslandicus in the world, with most other examples being weathered, crushed or incomplete. This is the real deal,” Dr Holland concluded.

Check out the full story from The Brisbane Times and The Huffington Post.