lagoon

The environment they lived in was covered by a warm, shallow lagoon and the dinosaurs left their prints as they ambled across the mud.

Massive helicopters buzzed around Pepperdine University on Tuesday, one dipping down into a lagoon to suck up water before heading for an immense plume of smoke in the distance.

Chinook helicopters dipped down into a lagoon on the vast lawn of Pepperdine University sucking up water to battle the fire.

Mr Auld-Thomas and his colleagues named the city Valeriana after a nearby lagoon.

These lagoons surge and recede with the tides and are an important habitat for migrating birds and native plant species.