6. Little is known about the lives of plesiosaurs, which had four paddlelike limbs and are classified into a different group from dinosaurs. “With the latest findings, we can picture how ...
Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings. Plesiosaurus, an early plesiosaur, was about 4.5 metres ...
including dinosaurs, and published the findings. In 2004, he discovered a fossil of “Satsuma-Utsunomiyaryu,” the first fossilized plesiosaur ever found in the Kyushu region, in a stratum about ...
But the team also points out that plesiosaurs died out along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Bones and teeth from 3m (10ft) long adults and an arm bone from a 1.5m (5ft) long baby were ...