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Tanystropheus was featured briefly in Episode 2 of BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs spin-off, Sea Monsters. During the show, while Nigel Marvin is swimming around the Triassic seas, he encounters a Tanystropheus amongst a pair of Nothosaurus and a Cymbospondylus. Sneaking up behind the creature, he seizes its tail only for it to break off in a lizard-like fashion. This theory is now discredited.
A small model of Tanystropheus was added to the Safari Ltd.'s popular Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh dinosaur model series, in 2000. The model was green and brown in color with a striking blue underside, and contains a bendable neck; the only model in the series to date with movable parts. In 2007, the model was retired, and re-released with a new colour scheme. The new model is brown with a green neck and head, though with a much yellower hue to the original model. It has yellow stripes.
Hasbro/Kenner released a Tanystropheus action figure in the second series of the Jurassic Park toyline. It has been re-released twice, once repainted and once as a mutant in the Chaos Effect toyline as the Tanaconda which was mixed with the DNA of a Tanystropheus and an Anaconda.
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