During the excavations, over 30,000 fossil remains were discovered, including teeth, bones, and other fragments of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, fish, and sharks. The long-awaited results of the study were recently published by a team of Scandinavian paleontologists from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. The researchers note that the fossils show complex food webs with an abundance of predators that developed over a relatively short evolutionary period. A global comparative analysis confirmed that the Svalbard site is one of the richest in terms of the diversity of marine vertebrates from the beginning of the age of dinosaurs.
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