Advanced Social Structure in all Echolocating Marie Species

All of the known species which have the ability to echo-locate underwater have very social behavior and are extremely intelligent with complex feelings, these being dolphins and whales. These are marine mammals. Marine reptiles, or reptiles adapted to living in water behave much differently. All of these creatures must breath air. The only difference is that most marine adapted reptiles have nests and lay eggs on land and all marine mammals give live birth underwater.

Plesiosaurs, were, or currently are the only marine reptile to have live birth underwater. All reptiles have nests. This is no record of any reptile not having a nest. Confusion arises among paleontologists as to weather the plesiosaurs ever layed eggs in nests on land. There has been noted in some species of ichthiosaurs that females have a movable pelvis. The difference in sex and movable pelvis are not as apparent in plesiosaur fossils. If they had live young underwater, it is assumed that they lived in similar social groups like dolphins in whales, to protect young from predators such as sharks.

Four separately twitching flippers on a snake-like moving form would create a very complex array of moves and gestures. The front and rear sets of flippers could be used in unison or opposite of each other. Laterally, this would also be true. Likely, the front flippers are simultaneously flipped, and the rear set operate like a Looney Toons character's legs pedaling around in circles. These creatures would be very fast and extremely maneuverable, having a vocabulary of tricks greater than that of a dolphin or seal.

The most incredible use of the anatomical adaptation of head on a long neck, is its ability to act as a hand on an arm to reach out to great distances. Multiple plesiosaurs with social groups similar to that as dolphins, to defend their young, could gather together and use all of their heads on long necks like multiple arms on giant body. It would be assuming to say that plesiosaurs could cooperate with one and other to excavate and build elaborate dens underwater. If these creatures could echolocate with one and other, they would be just as intelligent, or if not more intelligent than dolphins. Successful use of four flippers would free up the head on a long neck enough to modify it from being primarily an aerodynamic design to a primarily functional design, this having the leverage and range of motion as an arm and a hand.

Birds, begin able to fly use their beak as a hand. Some bird are very intelligent using their beaks from being able to copy any spoken language to picking locks performing very other very complex technical tasks. This is limited by the quality of its sharpness in aerodynamic design. A beak using leverage has a shorter neck and less range of transformation from the center of gravity. A beak used in long flight in groups has less leverage and a longer neck. These animals do not have leverage and a long appendage existing in the same body. The great apes are the only terrestrial animal that have long arms freed up to perform complex tasks that could be far away from the body. There are no intelligent underwater creatures that have arms. Dolphins and whales lost the length or their limbs and clamping properties of their digits. All water creatures do not have arms, and their heads are used, primarily, for the ability to cut through water and to feed. The heads of all water creatures are all well attached to their bodies and can be used as part of the body in defense.

These creatures rarely swallow something larger than they could chew limited by the diameter and length of their neck. Many of their marine reptile cousins and other marine species died of gluttony.

A long neck is dangerous to have underwater, but the advantages are limitless when the neck is used as an arm, and the head as a hand. Plesiosars, if they adapted to echolocate, would have a very complete social structure and would be able to use their heads, together, as multiple arms and hands. This indicates extreme intelligence and, as reptiles go, the ability to build extremely complex and networked nests. The fear of decapitation would make these creature keep their nests very well hidden. Any possible predatory animal would never, ever, see it.

Plesiosaur mating behavior would be very curious. The head on a long neck, is a male fallacy. This rivals the sign Scorpio. Scorpions were put in the zodiac as as astrological sign, to denote the sexual nature of people born under it, as well as the way that the stars are aligned. The scorpion that uses its stinger in mating. The male has to lay down a sperm package and direct the female to sit on it. This is difficult to do for the female, because she can not see behind her own stinger. The male uses is claws and stinger in perform an elaborate dance to get the female in the right position. The scorpions essentially sting each other in mating. Plesiosaurs, shaped like a long pentagon, with a tail at the base, moves like a male sperm and is a more powerful sexual icon than Scorpio.

Some have theorized that male plesiosaurs would bite each others necks and try to flip the others over to show its dominance. Judging by the body form, the plesiosaur body would be vulnerable and awkward if flipped upside down. Mating habits of plesiosaurs may involve some biting. The most beautiful thing about these creatures would be the ability to wind together with each other.

In August, 1972, the Academy of Applied science received strong echos from two different bodies. Fish in the photo were in formation, fleeing from predators. a second photo from the same sonar beam, revealed a flipper. Dinsdale filmed a moving hump in 1961, sonar results, flipper photos. Nessies were given the scientific name Nessiteras rhombopteryx. Large objects have appeared in sonar echos in Loch Ness since the 1950s.(1)

Caddy, cadborosaurus, has been reported off the coast of British Columbia. A mangled skeleton was found in the stomach of a sperm whale found off that coast. There are carvings in the local area that date back to 200 AD. People describe a serpent-like creature with giraffe-like horns and a mane down its neck. Tubercles along the animals back could act as tiny gills, nokes Bousfield in the New Scientist article, 23 Jan 1993. May be a migratory animal. Many sightings.