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

数年，物学家一直想知道蛇颈是否也通过怀胎方式繁殖后代。

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

后，22 岁的玛丽发现了第一具蛇颈骨架。

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

他们发现，这种蛇颈活在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物。

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

人们希望这个发现能有助于解开澳大利亚长颈的蛇颈化过程之秘。

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米的大型水物。

Giant swimming reptiles like the Ichtyosaur, a huge dolphin like creature, and the Plesiosaur, that looked like a giant, long neck turtle, once ruled the sea and influenced the evolution of the Megalodon.

大型游动的爬行动物，如海豚似的鱼，和看起像长脖子的巨型海龟一样的蛇颈，曾经统治过大海而且影响到了巨齿鲨的化。

While the others on this list were all land dinosaurs, the plesiosaur was a marine reptile and an intact skeleton of one was just discovered in Australia.

虽然名单上的其他都是陆，但蛇颈是一种海洋爬行动物，而且刚刚在澳大利亚上发现了一具完整的蛇颈骨架。

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。

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 ，与一种巨大的水爬行类动物很像，那种水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.

当时的其他水物，如蛇颈和沧，严格说并不是。

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.

或者它可能是一种活在海洋中的已灭绝爬行动物，就像这种巨大的蛇颈。

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

另外，我认为蛇颈的存时间比我们想象的要长得多。

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

她发现了第一块蛇颈遗骸，这是在英国发现的第一块翼化石。

Underwater giants like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs simply could not survive in this  new world and disappeared from the fossil record around 66 million years ago.

沧和蛇颈等水下巨兽根本无法在这个新世界中存，并于大约 6600 万年前从化石记录中消失。

There's pterosaurs (those are the pterodactlys), plesiosaurs, There are mosasaurs and pliosaurs, and ichthyosaurs there's even groups like lepidosaurs, these are still around today.

有翼（那些是翼）、蛇、沧和上，还有鱼，甚至还有像鳞这样的群体，这些今天仍然存在。

At eight meters long, this is a plesiosaur.

{\an8}（1.5亿年前）这只蛇颈身长八米。

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？

Or is it the ghost of a plesiosaur?

还是一只蛇颈的幽灵？