Re: [dinosaur] Submerged sauropods

On Thu, Oct 10th, 2019 at 11:22 PM, Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kermack's reasoning is rock-solid, and there is essentially no possibility
> of snorkelling sauropods. As Kermack himself noted in the closing words of
> his paper, "If the sauropods were, in fact, aquatic, they probably lived
> much the same sort of life as the present-day Hippopotamus, swimming and
> diving in the water, and walking along the bottom. To breathe, however,
> they would have needed to raise their body nearly, if not quite, to the
> surface."
>
> -- Mike.

It makes you wonder how elasmosaurids or tanystropheids managed to breathe. Would they have needed 
to surface completely with their bodies held horizontal? 

--
Dann Pigdon