Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Terrifying prehistoric monster found with massive giraffe neck and crocodile head
dailystar.co.ukREAD NEXT: Megalodon was heavier than 10 elephants and could eat whales in 'just a few bites'It has been named as a Serpentisuchops - which translates as "snakey crocodile face".Research lead Professor Scott Persons, from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, said: "For comparison, your own neck has a mere seven vertebrae, the Serpentisuchops has 32."The sea creature is a member of an extinct group of marine reptiles called the plesiosaurs, of which 100 different species have been discovered including a creature that would have weighed 45 tonnes and been 50 feet in length which was discovered on a Norwegian archipelago in 2009.Persons says this latest discovery is a game changer."When I was a student I was taught that all late-evolving plesiosaurs fall into one of two anatomical categories.
Those with really long necks and tiny heads, and those with short necks and really long jaws. Well, our new animal totally confounds those categories," he said.The fossil was discovered a quarter of a century ago in Wyoming, but work on its analysis has only just started as it took many years to carefully and clean and prepare it to be examined.
The researchers say the Serpentisuchops feasted on a diet of small, quick-swimming prey, like squid and small fish."The tall, conical teeth are smooth and not serrated with a cutting edge, so this animal wouldn't have been able to bite through thick bone," Persons said.
During the time the creature lived, the American continent was immersed in a shallow sea called the Western Interior Seaway which is where it is thought the animal lived.
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