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This Rare Sea Monster Fossil Is Providing A Clearer Picture Of What Extinct Creatures Of The Deep Looked Like
Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
Rare Fossil of 183-Million-Year-Old ‘Sea Monster’ Reveals Both Smooth and Scaly Skin
For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...
The New York Times8d
Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster
A new study suggests that some plesiosaurs, in addition to fishy scales on their flippers, had humanlike skin on their tail regions, similar to the features of some living sea turtle species.Credit ...