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	Volcanic Blast Likely Killed and Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur Found in Antarctica
		The long-necked, diamond-finned plesiosaurs are probably most familiar as the legendary inhabitants of Scotland's Loch Ness, although scientific evidence indicates the marine carnivores have been extinct for millions of years.
		Whether plesiosaurs gave live birth has not been proved, but numerous bones and partial skeletons of larger plesiosaurs were found in the same area as the young.
		That plesiosaur was named Mauisaurus and is characterized by a rounded end of the major paddle bone.
	www.physorg.com /news85073117.html (1084 words)

	Plesiosaurs- Enchanted Learning Software
		Plesiosaurs were large, marine reptiles from the Mesozoic Era that ranged in size from 8-46 feet long (2.5-14 m).
		Plesiosaurs may have evolved from the Nothosaurs or Pistosaurus, a mid-Triassic reptile.
		Plesiosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era, from the early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Plesiosaur.shtml (811 words)

	Plesiosaur - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Plesiosaurs were huge reptiles that lived in the ocean many millions of years ago.
		Some plesiosaurs were more than 15 m (50 ft) long.
		The drawing shown here depicts the fossil skeleton of a plesiosaur that was found in Japan in the late 1960s.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461551487/Plesiosaur.html (57 words)

	The Plesiosaur Directory - Palaeobiology - Locomotion
		Robinson (1975) uses many lines of evidence to dispel the notion that plesiosaurs were exclusively rowing animals, the most convincing points being the paddle shape and the joint between propodials (humerus and femor) and the girdles (pelvic and pectoral) both of which facilitate a rowing method.
		However, small plesiosaurs may have been relatively uneffected by such constraints and it is not unreasonable to imagine them using their powerful limb downstrokes to propel them forward in short 'hops'.
		Plesiosaurs overcome this problem in the same way is the contemporaneous Ichthyosaurs and evolved the ability to give birth to live young.
	www.plesiosauria.com /locomotion.html (788 words)

	Plesiosaur - CreationWiki
		The Plesiosaur is an extinct marine reptile that is found in strata identified as the Mesozoic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Eras.
		The Plesiosaur was known to have probably very little trouble maneuvering its way around in the water and has quicksilver reactions or reflexes and speed as fast as lightning.
		The Plesiosaurs would eat ballasts so it would help pulverize food in their stomach so that digestion was not so problematical and to help them dive deep in the water to the beyond.
	creationwiki.org /Plesiosaurs (849 words)

	Loch Ness Monster-Like Creature's Bones Found - Technology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The plesiosaur is a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern Ocean roughly 70 million years ago, according to the National Science Foundation.
		The fossil skeleton of the baby plesiosaur is one of the most complete of its type ever found and is thought to be the best-articulated fossil skeleton ever recovered from Antarctica.
		Plesiosaurs lived for millions of years in the southern ocean around Antarctica, which, back then, was warm.
	www.nbc5.com /technology/10510482/detail.html (526 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The common name 'plesiosaur' is applied both to the 'true' plesiosaurs (Suborder Plesiosauroidea) and to the larger taxonomic rank of Plesiosauria, which includes both long-necked (elasmosaurs) and short-necked (polycotylid) forms.
		The first plesiosaur skeletons were found in England by Mary Anning, in the early 1800s, and were amongst the first fossil vertebrates to be described by science.
		While the survival of a small, unrecorded breeding colony of plesiosaurs for the 65,000,000 years since their apparent extinction is unlikely, the discovery of real and even more ancient living fossils such as the Coelacanth and of previously unknown but enormous deep-sea animals such as the giant squid, have fuelled imaginations.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Plesiosaur (2317 words)

	Big Brook Plesiosaur Page
		Plesiosaur teeth have a conical indent in the bottom of the root to fit into the socket of the jaw.
		The scrappy reptilian bone of mosasaurs, sea turtles, "crocodiles", and plesiosaurs are similar and are all found at this locality.
		This may suggest the more ancient plesiosaurs, that where around since the Jurassic, were becoming out classed by the newer types of mosasaurs, modern types of crocodiles, and sharks.
	njfossils.net /plesiosaur.html (528 words)

	Kaiwhekea katiki, a Late Cretaceous plesiosaur from high southern latitudes
		Plesiosaurs and other marine reptiles, such as mosasaurs, have been known from New Zealand since the 1860s.
		The plesiosaur was preserved inside a large concretion which was recovered bit by bit over about 30 days of field work.
		It is widely thought that plesiosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, in the “KT” boundary extinction that also accounted for the demise of dinosaurs.
	www.otago.ac.nz /geology/features/paleontology/kaiwhekea-katiki.html (0 words)

	Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur - life - 02 November 2006 - New Scientist
		The plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived 160 million years ago, looked like nothing alive today, with a neck that was some 2 metres long, the length of the body and tail combined.
		Plesiosaurs used their long necks to reach down and feed on soft-bodied animals living on the sea floor, Noè told the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Ottawa, Canada, last month.
		He examined fossils of a plesiosaur called Muraenosaurus, and by calculating the articulation of the neck bones he concluded the neck was flexible and could move most easily when pointing down.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg19225764.900-why-the-loch-ness-monster-is-no-plesiosaur.html (0 words)

	Otago Museum :: Dunedin, New Zealand
		Although the plesiosaur swam well underwater, female plesiosaur would come onto land to lay their eggs.
		Plesiosaurs, the best known of the world’s extinct marine reptiles, were found worldwide.
		Plesiosaur fossils occur worldwide, but the one displayed in the Otago Museum establishes a new genus and species.
	www.otagomuseum.govt.nz /the_shag_point_plesiosaur_238.html (0 words)

	Sea-Monster or Shark: An Alleged Plesiosaur Carcass
		Nevertheless, the discovery of a modern plesiosaur would certainly be a stupendous scientific find in its own right, confirming that long-necked "sea serpents" were not just long-extinct creatures or the stuff of sailor's myths, but real "living fossils." Unfortunately, a more thorough examination of the evidence would convincingly refute the plesiosaur interpretation.
		In many plesiosaurs the neck is by the longest section, and in no case is the torso (between the pelvic and pectoral fins) much longer than the head and neck, as it is in the carcass.
		If the creature were a plesiosaur, it would have had to be a short necked plesiosaur, whose ribs would be at least triple the reported length (John Martin 1997).
	www.paleo.cc /paluxy/plesios.htm (0 words)

	Sea-Monster or Shark: An Alleged Plesiosaur Carcass
		Nevertheless, the discovery of a modern plesiosaur would certainly be a stupendous scientific find in its own right, confirming that long-necked "sea serpents" were not just long-extinct creatures or the stuff of sailor's myths, but real "living fossils." Unfortunately, a more thorough examination of the evidence would convincingly refute the plesiosaur interpretation.
		In many plesiosaurs the neck is by the longest section, and in no case is the torso (between the pelvic and pectoral fins) much longer than the head and neck, as it is in the carcass.
		If the creature were a plesiosaur, it would have had to be a short necked plesiosaur, whose ribs would be at least triple the reported length (John Martin 1997).
	paleo.cc /paluxy/plesios.htm (6707 words)

	Plesiosaur - Conservapedia
		Plesiosaurs are large reptiles characterized by long necks with small heads; stocky, finless tails; and a broad, turtle-like body with four flippered appendages.
		The name plesiosaur (or plesiosaurus) comes from the Greek for "near to lizard", and was named by William Conybeare to signify that it was more lizard-like than the fish-like ichthyosaurus, which was first found only a few years previously nearby.
		The most often cited evidences for this theory are the many modern sightings around the globe of creatures that fit the description of a plesiosaur, the most famous of which have been reported at Loch Ness, Scotland (the so-called "Loch Ness Monster" or "Nessie") and Lake Okanagan in British Columbia (known as "Ogopogo").
	www.conservapedia.com /Plesiosaur (415 words)

	OZ fossils - The Age of Reptiles - Eromanga Sea - Plesiosaurs
		Plesiosaurs were large marine reptiles with limbs shaped like flippers, very long necks and relatively small heads.
		The plesiosaurs that lived in the Eromanga Sea were mostly of an especially long-necked kind called elasmosaurs.
		Plesiosaurs could have swum on the surface and reached down with their neck to search for food on the bottom.
	www.abc.net.au /science/ozfossil/ageofreptiles/eromanga/plesiosaurs.htm (812 words)

	What Killed and Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur
		The long-necked, diamond-finned plesiosaurs are probably most familiar as the legendary inhabitants of Scotland's Loch Ness, eventhough scientific evidence indicates the marine carnivores have been extinct for millions of years.
		The resulting package of plesiosaur remains encased in a protective plaster jacket was too large to carry, so the Argentine air force brought helicopters to the rescue.
		Whether plesiosaurs gave live birth has not been proved, but numerous bones and partial skeletons of larger plesiosaurs were found in the same area as the young.
	www.blogspan.org /blogs/permalinks/12-2006/juvenile-fossil-plesiosaur.html (1001 words)

	Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur
		The plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived 160 million years ago, looked like nothing alive today, with a neck that was some 2 metres long, the length of the body and tail combined.
		Plesiosaurs used their long necks to reach down and feed on soft-bodied animals living on the sea floor, Noè told the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Ottawa, Canada, last month.
		He examined fossils of a plesiosaur called Muraenosaurus, and by calculating the articulation of the neck bones he concluded the neck was flexible and could move most easily when pointing down.
	www.fuchsiashockz.co.uk /articles/nature/Loch_Ness_Monster_is_no_plesiosaur.php (255 words)

	Plesiosaur or rotting shark?
		Plesiosaurs were an important group of marine reptiles during the age of dinosaurs.
		Recent studies of plesiosaur paddles have shown that, instead of being pulled back and forth like oars on a rowboat, they were 'flapped' up and down much like the wings of a bird or the paddles of a turtle.
		The description of the butcher as seen on television appears to be a cross between a plesiosaur and a gigantic tortoise without its shell.
	www.accuracyingenesis.com /plesios.html (1329 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News - Dinosaurs :: Juvenile Sea Monster Found in Antarctica
		Plesiosaurs were giant sea reptiles that lived 210 to 65 million years ago during the dinosaur era.
		Michelle Pinsdorf, who has been working on the skeleton, told Discovery News that the plesiosaur is only missing some of its paddle-like flippers, part of the end of its tail and its skull.
		Antarctica may be cold now, but during the plesiosaur's lifetime, Antarctica would have been much farther north, closer to Australia, to which it was once attached.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/2006/12/08/plesiosaur_din.html?category=dinosaurs&guid=20061208093000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000 (442 words)

	Live plesiosaurs: weighing the evidence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The past existence of plesiosaurs is evident from the wealth of fossilized skeletal remains unearthed worldwide.
		Plesiosaurs were marine dwelling reptiles, and based on skeletons found to date they ranged in size from more than 2 meters (7 feet) for Plesiosaurus to about 14 meters (46 feet) for Elasmosaurus.
		It is also believed that plesiosaurs crawled on to beaches to lay their eggs in a similar manner to turtles, the rigid base providing the necessary support and protection.
	www.answersingenesis.org /tj/v12/i3/plesiosaurs.asp (4198 words)

	Loch Ness Monster-Like Creature's Bones Found - Technology News Story - WHIO Dayton
		The plesiosaur is a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern Ocean roughly 70 million years ago, according to the National Science Foundation.
		The fossil skeleton of the baby plesiosaur is one of the most complete of its type ever found and is thought to be the best-articulated fossil skeleton ever recovered from Antarctica.
		Plesiosaurs lived for millions of years in the southern ocean around Antarctica, which, back then, was warm.
	www.whiotv.com /technology/10510482/detail.html (646 words)

	Scientific Frontline® / Volcanic Blast Likely Killed and Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur Found in Antarctica
		The fossil remains represent one of the most-complete plesiosaur skeletons ever found and is thought to be the best-articulated fossil skeleton ever recovered from Antarctica.
		The long-necked, diamond-finned plesiosaurs are probably most familiar as the legendary inhabitants of Scotland's Loch Ness, although scientific evidence indicates the marine carnivores have been extinct for millions of years.
		The juvenile plesiosaur appears to be related to one discovered in New Zealand in 1874.
	www.sflorg.com /sciencenews/scn121106_01.html (1097 words)

	Plesiosaur Fossil
		When local fisherman Nick Collard went fishing on the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve he was not expecting to find a 1.5 metre-long sea creature, let alone one that had swam in the Jurassic seas 185 million years ago.
		"Plesiosaurs are very rare fossils, so you would be very lucky to find even a single bone or tooth.
		Plesiosaurs lived worldwide between 200 and 65 million years ago.
	www.somerset.gov.uk /somerset/culturecommunity/museums/whatsnew/plesiosaurfossil (0 words)

	FOXNews.com - Baby Plesiosaur Skeleton Unearthed in Antarctic - Science News \| Current Articles
		Plesiosaurs lived for millions of years in the then-warm southern ocean surrounding Antarctica, with adults growing as large as 32 feet long.
		Leaders of the 2005 expedition that recovered the plesiosaur were James E. Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, Judd Case of Eastern Washington University and Marcelo Reguero of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina.
		The skeleton was found in an area covered with volcanic ash, leading them to speculate that the plesiosaur was killed in an eruption, either by the blast or by ash dumped in the ocean.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,236018,00.html (549 words)

	The Plesiosaur Directory - Classification - Plesiosauria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plesiosaurs are a secondarily aquatic group of carnivorous reptiles belonging to the clade Sauropterygia within the diapsid clade Euryapsida (Tayor, 1989; Caldwell, 1997).
		The family Polycotylidae for example is a Late Cretaceous group of short-necked plesiosaurs, but cranial evidence (Carpenter, 1997) points to plesiosauroid affinity rather than pliosaur, despite the short necks.
		Ambiguous plesiosaur material occurs in Middle Triassic deposits (Benton, 1993) but the first diagnostic plesiosaurs are uppermost Triassic in age (Taylor and Cruickshank, 1993b; Storrs, 1994, 1997).
	www.geocities.com /sea_saur/plesiosauria.html (523 words)

	Plesiosaur teeth
		The Plesiosaur was a large marine reptile from the Mesozoic era.
		Plesiosaurs had four flippers, sharp teeth in strong jaws, and short, pointed tails.
		All our plesiosaur fossils come out of the phosphate mines of Khouribgha, Morocco, and date back to about 65 million years ago.
	www.piinc.biz /dinoteethplesiosaur.htm (74 words)

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