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Some Plesiosaurs Had Smooth Skin on Their Body and Scales on Their Flippers

Paleontologists have examined a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with well-preserved skin traces from around the tail and front flipper from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale of southern Germany. The post Some Plesiosaurs Had Smooth Skin on Their Body and Scales on Their Flippers appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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Some Plesiosaurs Had Smooth Skin on Their Body and Scales on Their Flippers
Life reconstruction of the Jurassic plesiosaur from the Posidonia Shale of southern Germany. Image credit: Joschua Knüppe.

Paleontologists have examined a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with well-preserved skin traces from around the tail and front flipper from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale of southern Germany.

The post Some Plesiosaurs Had Smooth Skin on Their Body and Scales on Their Flippers appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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