Plesiosaur

So, yeah, maybe it's a big brontosaurus thing or whatever Nessie is.

Plesiosaurus.

Plesiosaur is what people think, which is like a long neck.

It's a brontosaurus with flippers instead of legs.

But sort of like a seal body.

Okay.

Plesiosaurs.

The reason I'm talking about plesiosaurs is that there were some oil crulls drilling, disgusting, off the coast of Norway looking for oil.

And they pulled something up and they were like, what is this? Couldn't figure it out.

And at the end we, uh, just concluded must be a kind of marine reptile very close to plesiosauria and most likely a family or members of a family of the plesiosaurs.

plesiosaurs.So what did the contents of the vomit tell you about the lifestyle of the plesiosaur?

We know quite a lot about plesiosaur from the anatomic construction, from the skeletons and so on, but not too much about the diet, what they eat.

And this plesiosaur vomit, we have much more insight into the diet and the food web of, of those animals and, uh, what they digested.

Thus in the coal formations we find the trunks of palms standing upright amid conifers, tree ferns, vaniatites, and fishes having rhomboidal osseous scales.

In the Jura limestone, colossal skeletons of crocodiles, plesiosauri, planulites, and stems of the cicadee.

In the chalk formations, small polythalamia and bryozoa, whose species still exist in our seas.

In Tripoli, or polishing slate, in the semi-opal and the farina-like opal, or mountain meal, agglomerations of siliceous infusoria which have been brought to light by the powerful microscope of Ehrenberg.

Thus in the coal formations we find the trunks of palms standing upright amid conifers, tree ferns, goniotites, and fishes having rhomboidal osseous scales.

In the Jura limestone, colossal skeletons of crocodiles, plesiosauri, planulites, and stems of the ciccidae.

In the chalk formations, small polythalamia and bryozoa, whose species still exist in our seas.

In Tripoli, or polishing slate, in the semi-opal and the farina-like opal, or mountain meal, agglomerations of siliceous infusoria which have been brought to light by the powerful microscope of Ehrenberg.

Who knows?

Plesiosaur.

Oh, my goodness.

Well, no, but so from his, he, that, there's a spinal cord-

Initially, the scientists at the Science Museum of Tokyo unanimously declared the creature was a...

Who knows?

Plesiosaur.

Okay, so they just declared it?

They are.

So when that asteroid knocked off T-Rex and Triceratops and the Pterodactyls on land, it also knocked off the big reptiles in the ocean, the Mosasaurs, the Plesiosaurs.

And this is for similar reasons as to what happened on land.

The Earth went dark and cold.

So that crashed as well.

So you had profound extinctions in the ocean as on land.

And when these Mosasaurs and Plesiosaurs went extinct, and by the way, we have fossils of Plesiosaurs, particular from New Zealand.

I mean, we know they were living in the south right to the very end of the Cretaceous, right before the asteroid hit.