A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

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The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it could both swim rapidly and move along rough seabeds. Researchers at Lund University in ...

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Researchers have been able to examine the soft tissues of other prehistoric marine reptiles. But only around eight plesiosaurs have ever been found with some of their soft tissue still preserved ...

The new research team confirmed it was a plesiosaur from approximately 183 million years ago, a marine reptile that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and died out after the extinction event.

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Plesiosaurs were marine reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and went extinct at the same time as them. For the first time ever, scientists have gotten a detailed look at its soft tissue ...