RE: The Water Horse

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Anthony Docimo wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:30:04 +0000> From: dinowight@yahoo.co.uk> 
> > Subject: Re: The Water Horse> To: birdbooker@zipcon.net; 
> > dinosaur@usc.edu> > I think, if anything, it's based on Nessiteras> 
> > rhombopteryx, which is basically a murky splodge on a> photo that the 
> > authors of that description claim might> be the Loch Ness Monster. > > 
> > AFAIK, no plesiosaur had horns, but just watch as I'm> proven wrong...
>
> could it have been a (spongy?) non-fossilizing material that gives the 
> appearance of horns?

This dredged up an old memory:

http://www.toontracker.com/beanytoon/bandc.gif

I thot it had little horns, but they were just eyelashes.