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The Other Expired Marine Monsters

October 30, 2009

There’s been news on the giant marine predators front. Now, don’t get me wrong, they’re still extinct and all (I know, I know). But  . . .
… this week New Scientist’s cover story took a closer look at the four major taxa of marine reptiles, in all their incarnations from the Permian to the Big [...]

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When Plesiosaurs Ruled the Sea

October 19, 2009

Some life is weird by virtue of time delay. If the inhabitants of the Cretaceous Seaway — the long strip of semi-shallow ocean that flooded middle North America some 82 million years ago — could see the vast blubbery mammals that inhabit the seas today, they would no doubt think them odd. And tasty.
But it so [...]

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