This video about Svalbard says about itself:
National Geographic Live! – Jørn Hurum: Sea Monster Island
Jan 2, 2012
Far north of the Arctic Circle, emerging explorer Jørn Hurum coaxes the secrets of evolution from a rocky polar desert with a treasure trove of fossils, including sea monsters of the Jurassic era.
Don’t worry, the reports and photos about Svalbard birds and other wildlife in June 2013 will return.
Meanwhile, about other Svalbard wildlife, from much longer ago.
From the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway:
Jurassic Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs of Svalbard
Plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs are two groups of marine reptiles that inhabited the Earth’s oceans in the Mesozoic – the plesiosaurs being most diverse in the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, while the ichthyosaurs dominated the Triassic and diminished throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Like today’s whales and seals, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs descended from land-living animals that…
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