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Abysm of Ages
🕑 Added 2025-08-20 00:16:19 +0000 UTCPaleontologist Edward Drinker Cope accidentally reconstructed Elasmosaurus (now well understood to have it's head at the end of a long neck) as having a short neck and a comically long tail. At the time, he hadn't made the connection that Elasmosaurus was a member of the Plesiosaur family and thus followed their overall body plan. His rival, Charles Othniel Marsh, gave him absolute hell over this once it was discovered, but The Bone Wars are a tale for another day.
Species depicted: Plesiosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Rhamphorhynchus, Pterodactylus, Dimorphodon, Ichthyosaurus, Odontochelys, Dryptosaurus (snout)
