Unique feeding mechanism among marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 07:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Among the many groups of marine reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs, elasmosaurs are famous for their necks, which can have up to 76 vertebrae and make up more than half the total length of the animal. These "sea dragons" attained worldwide distribution and vanished only during the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago.