Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to the following people for their assistance and contributions:

Richard Forrest provided technical assistance and advice.
Chris Crump shared many photographs and images and also provided permission to use them here.
Louisa King produced the animations on the locomotion page.
Roger Benson provided several of the PDFs on the publications page.

The skeletons in the site header are (from left to right): Kronosaurus (in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge), Thalassomedon (in the American Museum of Natural History, New York), Cryptoclidus (In the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow), Rhomaleosaurus (in the Natural History Museum, London), Dolichorhynchops (in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington) and Thalassiodracon (in the Natural History Museum, London).

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