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plesiosaur n.(pl. -ri ) 【古生物學】蛇頸龍。

“ it ' s as big or bigger than the largest plesiosaur ever found , “ hurum said . “ this absolutely looks like a new species , “ he added 授予“怪物“的稱號.這是一種我們之前沒有發現過的蛇頸龍

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The area where it was found had been a deep tropical bay during the jurassic period . the world ' s relatively shallow seas between 230 million and 65 million years ago contained several large animals , such as the plesiosaur with a 20 - foot neck and the giant ichthyosaurs that could be 75 - feet long 報道說,在2 . 3億年至6500萬年前,世界一些淺海地區曾生活著一些體型巨大的動物,如脖子長達20英尺約合6 . 01米的蛇頸龍以及身長可達75英尺約合22 . 86米的巨大魚龍等。

They included such beasts as giant ichthyosaurs that might have reached 25 meters in length and plesiosaurs with seven - meter - long necks reminiscent of the fabled loch ness monster in scotland 這些動物包括有著25米長龐大身軀的魚龍和讓人想起蘇格蘭尼斯湖怪獸故事的有著七米長脖子的蛇頸龍。

Patrick druckenmiller , a plesiosaur expert at the university of alaska ' s museum of the north , was a member of the expedition team that found and excavated the arctic fossil 一位北方阿拉斯加州大學博物館的蛇頸龍專家,作為這個探險隊的一個成員,他發現并挖掘了這具化石

“ it ' s as big or bigger than the largest plesiosaur ever found , “ hurum said . “ this absolutely looks like a new species , “ he added 授予“怪物“的稱號.這是一種我們之前沒有發現過的蛇頸龍

But the newfound plesiosaur is thought to have been a pliosaur , and pliosaurs were different from other plesiosaurs 但是新發現的這種蛇頸龍是一種上龍,上龍和其他蛇頸龍是不同的