Talk:Liopleurodon/@comment-121.45.242.9-20140810172103/@comment-121.45.242.9-20140810174746

This site is accurate, and his "howevers" are also worth looking at.

http://plesiosaur.com/plesiosaurs/liopleurodon.php

I would put the "roof length" limit at 14m rather than the simply ridiculous 10m size that has been previously suggested, and as with any long dead creature, the living creature would be slightly larger than the fossils show. Another thing to take into account is reptiles, especially dinosaurs and other large reptilians such as pliosaurs don't seem to stop growing as they age, they do slow but they don't stop. A great example of this is diplodocus and tricerotops (or should I call them superosaurus and torosaurus?) what were previously thought of as separate species often turns out to be a larger, older specimen of a species we already know.

Also, captive- raised dinos should be bigger than their wild counterparts if they are well fed.