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Liopleurodon lived in the late Jurassic oceans more than    tremendous acceleration. Liopleurodon may have used this
           163 million years ago. It was related to the long-necked   speed as a part of its hunting strategy—lying in wait in the
           plesiosaurs like the ones seen here, but that did not stop    gloomy depths before surging to seize its prey and ripping
           it from hunting them. Both these species drove themselves   it apart, although it could probably swallow this plesiosaur
           through the water with their long flippers. Experiments using   whole. A successful, formidable predator, Liopleurodon
           swimming robots have shown that this could have given them   existed for nearly 10 million years.





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