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Plesiosaurus
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Search complete. 20 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Plesiosaurus".
Sep 11, 2026
KPG 66.5 Episode 27 - The Great T. rex Food Fight: Hunter or Scavenger? (Season 2 Premiere)
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54:21Anthony PontieroHOST
There's just so many of you guys.
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54:24Anthony PontieroHOST
Would you speak about ocean dinos like the Plesiosaurus, Maxwell and Victoria? Plesiosaurus.
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54:32Anthony PontieroHOST
We find those here in Nebraska.
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54:33Anthony PontieroHOST
Another weird thing about Nebraska, it was covered in water.
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54:38Anthony PontieroHOST
So you guys, during some of the Mesozoic era, Nebraska was covered in inland shallow seas.
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54:44Anthony PontieroHOST
We had Mosasaurus, Plesiosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Archelons.
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54:48Anthony PontieroHOST
I'm going to do a show on the Archelon for Halloween.
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54:51Anthony PontieroHOST
The mutant ninja, the teenage mutant ninja Archelons.
Fairy Tales of Science-John Cargill Brough
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6:10Jill EngleNARRATOR
Another member of the Saurian or lizard race is disporting himself in a little bay close by.
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6:16Jill EngleNARRATOR
The imagination of man never called up a shape so weird and fantastic as this, in which we see combined a fish-like body, a long serpentine neck, and a tapering tail of a lizard, the Plesiosaurus.
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6:31Jill EngleNARRATOR
As he paddles through the water with his neck arched over his back in a graceful curve, he looks a very handsome fellow in spite of the somewhat evil expression of his countenance.
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6:41Jill EngleNARRATOR
But he is anything but handsome if we judge him by the adage which restricts the use of that epithet to handsome doers.
Fairy Tales of Science-John Cargill Brough
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6:55speaker_2NARRATOR
Another member of the saurian or lizard race is disporting himself in a little bay close by.
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7:02speaker_2NARRATOR
The imagination of man never called up a shape so weird and fantastic as this, in which we see combined a fish-like body, a long serpentine neck, and a tapering tail of a lizard, the Plesiosaurus.
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7:16speaker_2NARRATOR
As he paddles through the water with his neck arched over his back in a graceful curve, he looks a very handsome fellow in spite of the somewhat evil expression of his countenance.
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7:27speaker_2NARRATOR
But he is anything but handsome if we judge him by the adage which restricts the use of that epithet to handsome doers.
Fairy Tales of Science-John Cargill Brough
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6:10Lynne ThompsonNARRATOR
Another member of the Saurian or lizard race is disporting himself in a little bay close by.
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6:16Lynne ThompsonNARRATOR
The imagination of man never called up a shape so weird and fantastic as this, in which we see combined a fish-like body, a long serpentine neck, and a tapering tail of a lizard, the Plesiosaurus.
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6:31Lynne ThompsonNARRATOR
As he paddles through the water with his neck arched over his back in a graceful curve, he looks a very handsome fellow in spite of the somewhat evil expression of his countenance.
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6:41Lynne ThompsonNARRATOR
But he is anything but handsome if we judge him by the adage which restricts the use of that epithet to handsome doers.
Fairy Tales of Science-John Cargill Brough
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6:57Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
No whales, dolphins, nor porpoises are to be found in these waters, their places being filled up by strange marine reptiles which equal them in bulk and greatly surpass them in voraciousness.
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7:09Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
Yonder is one of these old monsters of the deep, the Cetiosaurus, or whale-like lizard.
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7:15Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
As it rests there with its broad back glistening in the sun, it might easily be mistaken for some rocky islet.
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7:22Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
But see, it moves.
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7:29Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
Now it raises its huge head and displays a row of teeth at which the bravest might shudder.
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7:35Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
And now it darts away from the shore, leaving a wide track of foam on the dark blue waters.
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7:41Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
Another member of the saurian or lizard race is disporting himself in a little bay close by.
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7:47Claudia SaltoNARRATOR
The imagination of man never called up a shape so weird and fantastic as this, in which we see combined a fish-like body, a long serpentine neck, and a tapering tail of a lizard, the Plesiosaurus.
Fun Facts About Mary Anning
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7:56Kyle WoodHOST
After a thorough inspection, Cuvier owned up to his mistake and admitted that Anning's discovery was genuine.
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8:03Kyle WoodHOST
The creature was named Plesiosaurus, meaning near lizard, because of its unique skeletal structure.
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8:10Kyle WoodHOST
This discovery established Anning's reputation as a very meticulous fossil collector who preserved fragile bones intact.
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8:19Kyle WoodHOST
Her work on plesiosaurs helped scientists map the diverse reptile ecosystems of the Mesozoic Era.
Fairy Tales of Science-John Cargill Brough
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8:11Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Another member of the saurian or lizard race is disporting himself in a little bay close by.
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8:17Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
The imagination of man never called up a shape so weird and fantastic as this, in which we see combined a fish-like body, a long serpentine neck, and a tapering tail of a lizard, the Plesiosaurus.
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8:32Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
As he paddles through the water with his neck arched over his back in a graceful curve, he looks a very handsome fellow in spite of the somewhat evil expression of his countenance.
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8:42Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
But he is anything but handsome if we judge him by the adage which restricts the use of that epithet to handsome doers.
Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt-Arthur Henry Patterson
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58:50speaker_1NARRATOR
The stern locker carries the enamelled pots, boilers, and crocks, and the forepeak stows the bedding in a kit bag and pickling.
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59:01speaker_1NARRATOR
With such a Noah's ark, even as in an ark of bulrushes, I am as free to float or sail forth upon the face of the waters, or drift above a submerged world, or over the Yare Sargasso weeds, fearless of crocodiles or of the terrified Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and other antediluvian monsters Noah and Shem saw from the dove's window in his big houseboat when he had ticked off his guide to his floating zoo.
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59:39speaker_1NARRATOR
I have been wooing laziness today.
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59:42speaker_1NARRATOR
A few minutes ago I paddled back from Serlingham Broad with a bonny lad, the son of the Yare Hotel's host, a keen schoolboy with a Norwich badge on his cap.