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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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