Dr.Toradorasaur

      The Leopluradon is now extinct. They were an aquatic reptile predator. That lived during the mid-late Jurassic period.

      They were found in a strip of ancient rock going through England. It's fossils have also been found in France and Russia. The clay has been preserved for more than 160 million years along with different marine creatures.

      The jaws of a Leopluradon are estimated to be 3 meters (10ft.) long. The body was about 10 meters (33ft.) long. They swam at a speed of 6mph.

Blog #2 Mermaids

A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Christopher Columbus reported seeing these creatures when he was exploring the Caribbean and sightings have been reported in the 20th and 21st centuries in Canada, Israel, and Zimbabwe. The United States National Ocean Service stated in 2012 that no evidence of mermaids have ever been found.  

Reported Sights of Mermaids

~Christopher Columbus-1493

~Blackbeard and sailors-??

~In Vancouver, Canada-1870 & 1890 

~Victoria, Canada-1967

~Japanese soldiers on Kei Islands-1943 

~Kiryatyam- August 2009 

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On the video of Animal Planet's Mermaid: The new Evidence, a scientist witnesses in Greenland in a submarine is a humanoid creature approaching and touching their submarine. NOAA released a  saying "the person identified as NOAA scientist was an actor named David Evans. 

Dr. O

Dolphins are marine mammals closely related to whales and porpoises.there are almost forty species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from 1.2m and 40kg, up to 9.5m and 10 tones. There make a lot of sounds and love to play in the water. They live in the ocean with whales and other animals. There are baby dolphins and big dolphins in the ocean.

Dr. Ryan Thalattoarchon Saurophagis

Thalattoarchon saurophagis—translates to "lizard-eating sovereign of the sea. It was at least 28 feet (8.6 meters) long and lived about 244 million years ago during the Triassic period.The bus-size beast was an early ichthyosaur, part of a group of reptiles that swam the world's seas during the dinosaur era.

The Thalattoarchon fossil, partially dug up in 1998, was unusually well preserved, including the skull, fins, and entire vertebral column. Which is pretty amazing, particularly for an animal this size. In 2010, a group of archaeologists returned to the Nevada site to dig up the rest of the fossil. 

In the process, the scientists discovered an enormous skull and jaw-laden with large, sharp teeth that are big enough to carve up other large marine reptiles. Thalattoarchon's modern relatives would be orcas and great white shark both of which will take on similar-size prey. 

The sea monster's discovery also shows how ecosystems can bounce back from even the most extreme events.This animal occurs only eight million years after the biggest mass extinction event in Earth's history, The Permian extinction (which literally wiped out up to 95 percent of all the species in the ocean). "The ocean was a pretty empty place afterward."

Bottomless??

The abyss is full of monsters and odd fish. Some theoretical (giant stingray) and some just strange (angler fish). The main reason for not knowing all about this part of the ocean is mainly because the water pressure is so intense that most living things will die. Another reason is most  submarines do not have enough oxygen to get to the bottom.

 

As far as we know the animals may be this big.

Or this weird.

In the end the abyss is full of monsters known and unknown. And we may never reach the bottom.

But the abyss will never seem to stop being amazing.

I am Dr.Toradorasaur an oceanographer for 8th period science class. I find marine animals mythical or not and write about them. Facts about them like where there found,and what they look like.