Later, aged 22, Mary discovered the first plesiosaur skeleton.

后来，22 岁的玛丽了第一具蛇颈骨架。

At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

但是在海里，最繁盛的爬行动物要属鱼和蛇颈了。

They found that the plesiosaur lurked in the ocean more than 200 million years ago.

他们，这种蛇颈生活在2亿多年前的海洋中。

Among the likely creatures to have laid it are species of mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.

沧和蛇颈是可能产下此蛋的生物。

It's hoped it will help unravel the evolution of long-necked plesiosaurs in Australia.

人们希望这能有助于解开澳利亚长颈的蛇颈过程之秘。

Its predators include mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, large water creatures up to 15 meters in length.

它的捕食者包括沧和蛇颈，这是一种体长可达15米的型水生物。

Instead, Dr O'Keefe believes he has discovered evidence that plesiosaurs, too, gave birth to live young.

反过来，奥基夫博士相信他已了蛇颈同样靠胎生繁殖的证据。

For years, palaeontologists have wondered if the same was true of plesiosaurs.

数年来，古生物学家一直想知道蛇颈是否也通过怀胎方式繁殖后代。

Known fondly as Nessie, the Loch Ness monster resembles a huge, aquatic reptile which is now extinct, called the plesiosaur.

尼斯湖水怪通常被称为 Nessie ，与一种巨的水生爬行类动物很像，那种水生爬行动物就是已绝种的蛇颈。

Other aquatic creatures  of the time like the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are technically not dinosaurs.

当时的其他水生生物，如蛇颈和沧，严格来说并不是恐。

They probably remind you of animals like mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, and plesiosaurs.

它们可能让你想起像沧、鱼和蛇颈这样的动物。

Or maybe it's an extinct reptile that lived in the ocean like this massive plesiosaur.

或者它可能是一种生活在海洋中的已灭绝爬行动物，就像这种巨的蛇颈。

Definitions for pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and all the other saurs and not-a-saurs?

翼、蛇颈以及所有其他和非的定义？

Also, I think that there's plesiosaurs that were around for much longer than we thought.

另外，我认为蛇颈的生存时间比我们想象的要长得多。

Or is it the ghost of a plesiosaur?

还是一只蛇颈的幽灵？

She discovered the first-ever plesiosaur remains, the first pterosaur fossil found in England.

她了第一块蛇颈遗骸，这是在英国的第一块翼石。

At eight meters long, this is a plesiosaur.

{\an8}（1.5亿年前）这只蛇颈身长八米。

Pterosaurs and plesiosaurs would both go extinct in time.

翼和蛇颈终将灭绝。

With a long neck and flippers, a plesiosaur could reach 15 meters in length which would actually match estimations of the sheer size of Nessie.

蛇颈有着长长的脖子和脚蹼，一只蛇颈可以达到15米之长，蛇颈的长度事实上可以与尼斯湖水怪的净长相匹配。

Though we do need to consider ocean creatures like the plesiosaur, the largest heart belongs to an animal that is still alive.

虽然我们确实需要考虑像蛇颈这样的海洋生物，但最的心脏属于仍然存活的动物。