It was an aquatic animal, yet it had to remain near or on the surface of the water, while its long, serpent-like neck enabled it to reach its prey above or below with swift, far-reaching darts.
Yet it had no armor, and could not have been at all a match for the ichthyosaurus.

More's account shows, however, that it was a fearful enemy for man to encounter." "He seems to have been less formidable than that beast which they encountered in the swamp.

Have you any idea what that was ?" "I think it can have been no other than the Iguanodon," said the doctor.

"The remains of this animal show that it must have been the most gigantic of all primeval saurians.

Judging from existing remains its length was not less than sixty feet, and larger ones may have existed.