(from the article `plesiosaur`) Early in their evolutionary history, the plesiosaurs split into two main lineages: the pliosaurs, in which the neck was short and the head elongated; ...
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(pronounced PLY-oh-SAWR) Pliosaurs meaning greater lizard) were huge, short-necked plesiosaurs . These flippered marine reptiles were carnivores with sharp teeth in large, powerful jaws. They may have eaten ichthyosaurs and other plesiosaurs. They lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and they were not dinosaurs. Some Pliosaurs include P...
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Prehistoric carnivorous marine reptile, descended from the plesiosaurs, but with a shorter neck, and longer head and jaws. It was approximately 5 m/15 ft long. In 1989 the skeleton of one of a previously unknown species was discovered in northern Queensland, Australia. A hundred million years ago, it lived in the sea that once covered the Great...
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