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Motion Capture Elasmosaurus
King Kong. A name not often synonymous with Elasmosaurus. However, of all the battles fought by King Kong and his progeny, the battle fought against Elasmosaurus, by his "son" of course, in 1933's Son...
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Scholarly Elasmosaurs
Cope's paper on Elasmosaurus, as we all know, was originally describing an animal that was constructed in reverse in relation to how it should be represented. This appeared like this in his...
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Some Facts About Elasmosaurus
There are tons of little factoids about Elasmosaurus that get lost in the funny history of Elasmosaurus. In fact, it almost seems as though the debacle of Cope is the main focus of many mentions of...
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Nessie and Playsets
Where to start with the popular culture entry for the week? Elasmosaurus is an amazingly popular animal. Though most of the time packages for toys or generic books, or anything else of that type of...
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Not Quite Stupendemys
Stupendemys, for those of the readers not in the know, is a genus of turtle, extinct, that is now considered the largest in the history of the world. This week we will cover what is now the second...
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Archelon, Giant Turtle of Awesome
Type specimen (YPM 3000)Sometimes it is really hard to find exciting illustrations and paintings of some of the animals which we discuss here for Saturday mornings. Today, talking about a giant,...
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Dinosaurs are not the same as Archelon. Technically I should say Archelon is not a dinosaur- though it does show up on the Dinosaur For Kids fact site- but it is all the same. It does not appear, to my...
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There are a few videos with Archelon in them. One of them is not so much a video as a narrated book, which is pretty fantastic as you get an entire story, rare for books still within copyright (which...
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The Scholarly Sea Turtle
This is clearly not an image of Archelon. It is one of the best images of a "scholarly turtle" that turns up on Google, in my opinion. Most scholarly papers on Archelon have the unfortunate distinction...
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Interesting Archelon Facts
The Western Interior Seaway of North America was rife with life, this is a known fact from the wealth of fossil evidence that was collected between the 1860's and the present day. Archelon, as we know,...
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Archelon Meets Cavemen
I wanted very badly to embed a clip put up by TCM (that's Turner Classic Movies for those that do not know) on YouTube from the Hammer Film's- great British "cheesy" movies most of the time- remake of...
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The Mighty Tyler... uhh, Tylosaurus!
Tylosaurus proriger was, and still is, an amazing reptile of the ancient oceans of the world. Older depictions of Tylosaurus, which we will examine tomorrow, were quite snakelike in their appearance...
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Tylosaurus Swims Again
Older images of Tylosaurus, as I said yesterday, are quite fantastic. This image, from the turn of the 20th Century, is fairly typical of older drawings. The dragon-like appearance of older Tylosaurus...
View ArticleMaking A Fact Page
I have to borrow a fact page template from About, as I do sometimes. Strangely, Tylosaurus does not have a fact page on on kid related sites, which is, to me of course, sad and unfortunate. Borrowed...
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Most videos that have to do with Tylosaurus, of any species, are speculative fighting videos. What I mean by that is that they are self made videos that theorize battles between Tylosaurus an other...
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Paper Everywhere
Tylosaurus is one of the most studied genera of the Western Interior Seaway. There are papers written about it all over the place and many of them are quite current, or at least recent if the science...
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Gastrointestinal Wonders
Tylosaurus, as a genus not any individual species, seems to have had a habit of dining and dying. Quite a few specimens, and this is in part thanks to the preservative nature of the ocean sediments as...
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The Most Popular Reptile in the Sea
Tylosaurus is found in many aspects of popular culture. Books, YouTube videos, toys; we know they all exist. Mr. Everhart loves Tylosaurus- I have gathered that from his frequent and very useful...
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One Fish, Two Fish
Not to be made angryXiphactinus audax (and Xiphactinus vetus) were some big scary old fish. Reaching estimated lengths of nearly 20 feet (6m), these fish were truly monsters of the deep ocean. In fact,...
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Bulldog Fish
©Dmitry BogdanovXiphactinus is sometimes referred to as a bulldog looking fish, which makes sense when we look at the jaws of the fish and how they are turned upward at the same time as they are...
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