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Fri 11 Nov, 2005 07:53 am
I'd like to see more of the rest of the creature, but here's the fossil and the recontruction of the business end:
A 13 foot croc is big, but a plesiasaur with a 20 foot neck is even better, and a 75 foot Ichtheasaur is astounding.
Just imagine what it would have been like to see these things live. All marine organisms, but air breathers. I wonder if the pleisiosaurs beached themselves like seals. And how did the ichthesaurs surface for air, like dolphins, or did they do it differently.
Damn, that reconstruction sucks...it doesn't even seem to match the bone structure of the fossil. maybe I can make a better one if I get some pics of the skeleton!
Anyway, this is a cool article. Thanks for sharing!
Here's another fun one!
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/plesios.htm
rosborne979 wrote:A 13 foot croc is big, but a plesiasaur with a 20 foot neck is even better, and a 75 foot Ichtheasaur is astounding.
Just imagine what it would have been like to see these things live. All marine organisms, but air breathers. I wonder if the pleisiosaurs beached themselves like seals. And how did the ichthesaurs surface for air, like dolphins, or did they do it differently.
Oy! Swimming down here is tough enough, what with the prehistoric survivors (sharks and crocs) we already have!
Now you be wishing monsterosauri upon us!
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Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Giant extinct creatures with BIG, POINTY TEETH!!! BIG teeth, and pointy!
It couldn't have been THAT bad. Otherwise the oceans would have rapidly filled up with Plesiosaur and Icythosaraus poop - that is the normal reaction on meeting a creature with a 'dinousaurs head on a crocodile's body'. No?
Personally, I would hop it.
Whilst waiting for your ancestors to evolve and exploit a suitable niche? That is one high hop....
I am Wabbit, hear me woar.
We have NO Wogers, NO Wodewicks, NO Wuperts, NO Wabbits, NO cwocodiles, and NO Wudolph the Wed-Nosed Waindeehs...
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