It was thirty-five feet in length.

Then there was the Hylaeosaurus, a monster twenty-five feet in length, with a cuirass of bony plates." "But none of these correspond with More's description of the monster that fought with the galley." "No," said the doctor, "I am coming to that now.

That monster could have been no other than the Plesiosaurus, one of the most wonderful animals that has ever existed.

Imagine a thing with the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, the neck of a swan, the trunk and tail of a quadruped, and the fins of a whale.

Imagine a whale with its head and neck consisting of a serpent, with the strength of the former and the malignant fury of the latter, and then you will have the plesiosaurus.