All Your Prehistoric Questions Answered — The Evolution of Marine Reptiles
Some 180 million years ago in what's now Germany, a dolphin-like reptile died and sank to the bottom of an ancient ocean. Remarkably, the creature's burial at sea preserved its body in stunning.
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Mosasaurus (Credit:Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock) These massive, 30,000-pound, ocean-dwelling reptiles lived in various climates, with fossils found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica and the Americas. With 40-50 enormous, sharp teeth and a double-hinged jaw, Mosasaurus could open its mouth wide enough to swallow its prey whole.
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Researchers in China and the U.K. examined the fossil of a marine reptile called a pachypleurosaur from the early Triassic period (251.9 to 201.3 million years ago), which kicked off the start of.
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One of the enduring mysteries of paleontology, the demise of a highly successful group of dolphin-like marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs that flourished in Earth's seas for more than 150 million.
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The prehistoric marine reptiles came in different shapes and forms, from semi-aquatic dinosaurs that could also live on land to crocodile-like creatures and long-necked pliosaurs and plesiosaurs. Our list includes individuals from these four categories: Semi-aquatic dinosaurs
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A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already using whale-like filter feeding 250 million years ago. Topics Week's top
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James St. John/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 The most famous fossil bed in Ohio is the Cleveland Shale, which harbors creatures dating back to the Devonian period, about 400 million years ago. The most famous prehistoric shark to be discovered in this formation, Cladoselache was a bit of an oddball: This six-foot-long predator mostly lacked scales, and it didn't possess the "claspers" that modern male.
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A fossil from Antarctica is now the heaviest known animal in this group of prehistoric marine reptiles. Photograph by Stocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy By Joshua Rapp Learn Published June 7, 2019 •.
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Marine reptile Reptiles that live in the sea: • Saltwater crocodile (top left) • Sea turtle (top right) • Marine iguana (bottom left) • Sea snake (bottom right) Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment .
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For instance, both whales and plesiosaurs, another type of ancient marine reptile, made the move from land to sea, and scientists have unearthed fossils of amphibious species that show that.
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Marine reptiles were especially successful in the Mesozoic as major predators in the sea. There were more than a dozen groups of marine reptiles in the Mesozoic, of which four had more than 30 genera, namely sauropterygians (including plesiosaurs), ichthyopterygians, mosasaurs, and sea turtles.
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Category:Prehistoric marine reptiles Help Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C Prehistoric marine crocodylomorphs (66 P) I Ichthyosauromorphs (4 C, 3 P) M Mosasaurs (2 C, 26 P) S Sauropterygians (7 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric marine reptiles"
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Following is a list of marine reptiles, reptiles which are adapted to life in marine or brackish environments. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Extant The following marine reptiles are species which are currently extant or recently extinct. Crocodiles Crocodylus Crocodylus acutus (American crocodile)
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The death bed of dozens of 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles that resembled chunky dolphins, had long puzzled paleontologists. A new study revealed why the creatures died in.
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A countdown of 10 prehistoric marine reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Just to clarify, none of these animals are actually dinosaurs, they just li.
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Larger than Life Elasmosaurs were a species of plesiosaur that swam in a similar manner to a modern-day sea turtle — a method that scientists refer to as "underwater flying." They oscillated their large flippers as they whipped through the water. Their extended fins had evolved from legs as they moved off land and into the open waters.
