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Prehistoric life

Elasmosaurus

Elasmosaurus
Photo: Biodiversity Heritage Library, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Scientific name
Elasmosaurus
Continent
North America
Group
Marine reptile
Period
Cretaceous
Diet
Fish eater
Length
Large (9–20 m)
Moves
Swims
Feature
Long neck
Difficulty in WildGuessr
Medium

Did you know?

  • Its neck had about 72 bones, while a giraffe's neck has just seven.
  • In 1868 Edward Drinker Cope famously put its skull on the wrong end, at the tip of the tail.

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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q131106 · All prehistoric life · All entries