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In the Mesozoic some reptiles went back to the sea without being dinosaurs. Ichthyosaurs looked like dolphins and gave birth in open water. Plesiosaurs swam with four flippers. Close to monitor lizards, mosasaurs ruled the Late Cretaceous before vanishing 66 million years ago.
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Alexander Y. Berezin
Its neck alone made up half of its 7 m length. This plesiosaur weighed about 1.24 tonnes and had a skull of about 30 cm with very large eye sockets. Parts of its skeleton retain juvenile traits as in deep-sea vertebrates.
Photo: Connor Ashbridge (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ángel Cabrera
Its paddle-like limbs reached almost 3 meters in length: unusually large for an elasmosaurid. It probably fed by mixing prey and sediment on the sea floor like the modern gray whale.
Photo: Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/2014/09/aristonectes-quiriquinensis.html (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Edward Drinker Cope
Slim and agile, it dashed at prey in shallow water. It fed on cephalopods, fish and other small vertebrates.
Photo: Ninjatacoshell (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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