All articles tagged with "Marine-Reptile"
Everything about the green sea turtle: size, tropical ocean habitat, seagrass diet, 2,500 km migrations, natal homing, nesting arks at Tortuguero and Raine Island, and the strange facts that make Chelonia mydas one of the world's most traveled reptiles.
Everything about Mosasaurus: size, habitat, diet, discovery, reproduction, extinction, and the strange facts that made Mosasaurus hoffmannii the apex predator of the late Cretaceous oceans.
Everything about the marine iguana: the only sea-going lizard on Earth, found solely in the Galapagos -- diving to 30 m, sneezing salt, and shrinking its skeleton during El Nino.
Everything about plesiosaurs: size, habitat, diet, discovery by Mary Anning, four-flipper flight stroke, live birth, extinction, and why Nessie is not one -- a full reference to the ancient long-necked marine reptiles.
Everything about the ichthyosaur: temporal range, anatomy, dolphin-like convergent evolution, live birth, Mary Anning's 1811 discovery at Lyme Regis, Ophthalmosaurus giant eyes, and why these extinct marine reptiles vanished 30 million years before the dinosaurs.
