In the sixth chapter of my book Legends & Lore of Sea Monsters I wrote of the similarity of sea serpents and prehistoric marine animals such as the plesiosaurus, "that curious compound reptile, which has been compared with "a snake threaded through the body of a turtle," is described by Dean Buckland, in his Bridgewater Treatise, as having "the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length resembling the body of a serpent, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale." In the number of its cervical vertebrae (about thirty-three) it surpasses that of the longest-necked bird, the swan."[1] I even talked about the theory that perhaps sea serpents were living-fossils such as plesiosaurs, "sea-serpents certainly do bare a strong likeness to the plesiosaur, as many others have noticed, including Frederic A. Lucas, "the sea-serpent flourishes perennially in the newspapers and, despite the fact that he is now mainly r...
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