Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A fossil skeleton found in central Nevada's desert years ago has been identified as belonging to a 30-foot-long sea monster that ruled beneath the waves 244 million years ago.

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Beyond the An-225 Cossack, the results for the Russians included the KM Caspian Sea Monster or Ekranoplan.

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