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What is a plesiosaur?

What is a plesiosaur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order Plesiosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. [from c. 1840]
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In 2003, a fossilised vertebra of a plesiosaur was found on the shore of Loch Ness.
The plesiosaur and sauropod dinosaurs had 30 to 50 neck bones!
The plesiosaur, being a reptile, wouldn't undulate but move from side to side.
In contrast, Robinson observed that plesiosaur flippers were shaped like hydrofoils and hypothesized that they produced thrust through lift rather than drag.
Famed fossil hunter Mary Anning discovered the world's first complete plesiosaur along this coast in 1823, a dozen years after her family uncovered the first ichthyosaur.
It was said to be a sort of plesiosaur, somehow stranded in the loch from 65m years ago.

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