Discovered super long neck dinosaurs

Scientists have found the fossil skeleton of an ancient marine reptile with a super long neck and paddle-like limbs on a cliff in Alaska, USA.

Detection of super long neck dinosaur fossils

According to Patrick Druckenmiller, manager of Earth Sciences at the University of Alaska Museum, the skeleton belongs to the elasmosaur , a marine swimmer living 75 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period.

Elasmosaur has a neck half as long as his body.(Artwork: James Havens.)

" This is a special group of sea reptiles of larger plesiosaurs. Elasmosaur is very famous because they have extremely long necks and relatively small skulls," said Science Science Druckenmiller on August 4.

Much of elasmosaur 's newly discovered skeleton remains on the cliffs of the Talkeetna Mountains in southern Alaska. Druckenmiller estimates the animal is about 7.6 meters long with the neck occupying half the length of the body.

The incredible long neck of this ancient carnivorous dinosaur led to an interesting hypothesis in the 1930s when people thought that the mysterious Loch Ness monster was actually an unspoiled plesiosaur . Druckenmiller assumes that this hypothesis is "meaningless ," because plesiosaur is unable to erect the head on the water like a swan.

However, plesiosaur fossils may exist in unusual locations. The new elasmosaur found in Alaska is located in the middle of a mountain range with a height of nearly 2,743 meters, far from the sea floor, where the body of this dinosaur will sink after death.

" The stones around the skeleton lie on the sea floor about 70 to 75 million years ago. At that time there was a long stretch of sea along the southern border of Alaska today ," Druckenmiller said. Over nearly 100 million years, tectonic activity in ancient waters has raised the seabed thousands of meters high.