I have always had a love of the sea. I don’t wanna be in it, but on it would be nice. There are so many mysteries to the sea. We will never know everything there is to know about the sea. We don’t live there and are unable to adapt to live under water. So it plucks my curiosity to know what is there that I may never really lay eyes on. Me being an average Jane most likely will never see most of the animals except by way on National Geographic. I love thos magazines and thing every one should look at one regularly or visit there site. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/.
And that brings me too our little known animal today. Styxosaurus. This animal was named after the greek mythological river of Styx that separated the world of the dead (hades kingdom) from the world of the living. Saurus comes from the greek word meaning lizard.
Styxosaurus was a large plesiosaur, one of several species of a group collectively called elasmosaurs that appeared in the Late Cretaceous. Elasmosaurs typically have a neck that is at least half the length of the body, and composed of 60-72 vertebrae. This animal like most snakes swallowed there prey whole. There teeth where made to punture and hold rather than tear and chew.
