Plesiosaurs were perfectly adapted to life in bodies of water, although they had to come to the surface to breathe air.
In the Australian state of Queensland, paleontologists have found an almost intact skeleton of a six-meter young plesiosaur that lived about 100 million years ago. In the search on Wednesday, December 7, CNN reports.
The remains of a young plesiosaur were reportedly found in August by amateur paleontologists at an animal farm.
Espen Knutsen, Senior Curator of Paleontology at the Queensland Museum, compared the discovery to the Rosetta Stone, which helped scientists understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, when talking about the integrity of the skeleton.
He noted that scientists had previously been unable to find the bones of a plesiosaur’s body and head together.
“The difficulty is that plesiosaurs have very long necks. When such a waterfowl lizard dies, its body floats to the surface, and it is swallowed by predators, so the skeleton is not preserved intact,” Knutsen said. .
He added that the find will help scientists understand how the plesiosaur’s body changed over time.
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Earlier, during an archaeological dig in Canada, researchers on a mountainside in the Alberta Provincial Dinosaur Park discovered a fossil that may be a rare complete dinosaur skeleton.
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