How to Use plesiosaur in a Sentence

plesiosaur

noun

• This includes Ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and even the Megalodon – the largest shark known to man.
  — Matthew Cox, Cincinnati.com, 13 Mar. 2020
• Millions of years ago, when dinosaurs dominated the land, leviathans known as plesiosaurs prowled the oceans.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
• Elasmosaurs make up a family of the plesiosaurs, which represent some of the largest sea creatures of the Cretaceous.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2019
• Could the Loch Ness monster actually have been a plesiosaur?
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
• The plesiosaur to be displayed will be positioned by a mosasaur specimen.
  — Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Some believe Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur-like an elasmosaur - that somehow survived when all the other dinosaurs were wiped out.
  — Fox News, 11 June 2019
• The bones hint at the plesiosaur living and feeding in freshwater routinely.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• But until now, despite hundreds of fossils and over 200 years of collection, no one had found a pregnant plesiosaur.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2011
• One of the more far-fetched theories is that Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur that somehow survived the period when dinosaurs became extinct.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• The legend of the Loch Ness monster has commonly been attributed to a plesiosaur that somehow managed to survive the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2019
• The plesiosaurs - a group of marine reptiles including the pliosaurs - were thought to feed primarily on large marine animals and fish.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 June 2017
• The creature's appearance has been described as resembling a plesiosaur, an ancient sea monster that died out with the dinosaurs.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• Another part was that Nessie most closely resembles the plesiosaur.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• The Kansas plesiosaur finally fills in that longstanding gap.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2011
• Some cryptozoologists have argued that Nessie is a plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile that lived during the age of dinosaurs.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 23 May 2018
• To be abundantly clear, Gemmell isn’t betting on the possibility of finding a plesiosaur in Loch Ness.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• But the possibility of a modern-day plesiosaur being seen in rivers wasn’t plausible.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• Pliosaurs are a kind of plesiosaur, characterised by a large, two-metre-long skull, enormous teeth and extremely powerful jaws, making them the top ocean predators during the dinosaur age.
  — Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 26 May 2017
• The plesiosaur — an aquatic dinosaur once thought to exclusively reside in saltwater — is now believed to have spent much of its time in freshwater, according to a new study.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022
• Many ideas about what type of creature could be under Loch Ness’s surface have been floated over the years, ranging from an extinct prehistoric reptile called a plesiosaur to swimming circus elephants.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• The long necks of plesiosaurs — reptiles that emerged after Tanystropheus went extinct and lingered until the end of the Mesozoic period — are made up of many bulky vertebrae, all buried in muscle and blubber, Dr. Mujal said.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The remains of the 6-meter (19 feet) tall juvenile long-necked plesiosaur, also known as an elasmosaur, were found by a trio of amateur fossil hunters on a cattle station in the western Queensland outback in August.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Person said the plesiosaur was identified by its morphology.
  — Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Locals in Morocco found fossils belonging to the plesiosaur in a 100-million-year-old freshwater river system.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
• Sketch renderings of plesiosaurs resemble the popular imagination of the Loch Ness Monster.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2017
• That book also claims that Noah likely took small, or baby, dinosaurs onto his ark and that the Loch Ness Monster likely was real, perhaps a plesiosaur — a marine reptile that scientists say became extinct at the same time as dinosaurs.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Neither did the squidlike ammonites that curled like rams’ horns, or marine reptiles including the plesiosaurs (Loch Ness conspiracies notwithstanding).
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
• Fossil evidence strongly suggests that, like nonavian dinosaurs, plesiosaurs went extinct no later than 66 million years ago.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 23 May 2018
• The paleontologist released a second paper today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology detailing his research on a plesiosaur fossil, the oldest of its kind.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2017
• The announcement comes after researchers identified plesiosaur fossils in a 100 million-year-old river system in Morocco's Sahara Desert, indicating that the reptiles may have lived in freshwater and not only seawater, as previously thought.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024