Re: plesiosaur offspring (weak necks?)

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

>I have difficulty visualizing an
> elasmosaur hauling its great bulk onto a sandy beach and even more trouble
> visualizing it digging a hole for its eggs's to the vertical.

Who'd have thought that a multi-tonne elephant seal could move so fast
on land - or at all for that matter? Nature has a way of surprising you.

Although that said, having such a long neck as an elasmosaur would seem
to preclude them from trips on land. Perhaps smaller pliosaurs were not
as restricted though.

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