Posted on 06/22/2025 9:39:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analyzed the soft tissue of a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time, revealing that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This combination likely helped it swim efficiently while also allowing movement along rough seabeds.
Plesiosaurs inhabited the world's oceans throughout much of the Mesozoic Era (203–66 million years ago). These reptiles, which could grow up to 12 meters long, fed primarily on fish and propelled themselves using four paddle-like flippers, similar to sea turtles. Until now, little has been known about their external anatomy...
However, in a new study published in the scientific journal Current Biology, a research team led by scientists from Lund University has managed to analyze soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur found near Holzmaden, Germany.
"Fossilized soft tissue, such as skin and internal organs, is exceptionally rare. We used a broad range of techniques to identify smooth skin in the tail region as well as scales along the rear edge of the flippers. This provided us with unparalleled insights into the appearance and biology of these long-extinct reptiles," says Miguel Marx, a PhD student in geology at Lund University and the lead author of the study.
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LOL! Talk about being married to a failed ideology!
"Fossilized soft tissue"
Thus proving the plesiosaur was not a Democrat. Democrats are reptiles covered in 100% scaly skin.
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This one had both types of skin, proving it was a RINO.
Looks like a loooong neck turtle, maybe they could find enough dna... You know the rest.
True enough. “Advanced Cosmology” has become indistinguishable from Theology.
( ill let you dodge the subject of discoveries of dna in things found that are supposed to be millions of years old )
but it does illustrate what i said about the numbers these “ scientists” pull out of their penumbra's..
when i was in school it would have been a rounded # of 180 million..
but academia got tired of perceptive school kids calling out their boochit, so thats why this one used a number ending in 3.
soooo predictable.
oh , and i meant 6000 not 60000.
but according to some posers that means i was "lying".
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oops
not ending in 3,, still ending in zeros.
but still , my point stands.
183 million instead if 180 million
and still ending in zero.
think next year they will say its was 183,000,001 years old.
no, they will show it to the gullible as is , probably from here till eternity.
wow... that’s in good shape...
I know this statement wasn't mean to infer that plesiosaurs were dinosaurs but for the benefit of the less well-informed I thought I should mention that they, like many prehistoric reptiles, were not.
Dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic Period.
Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, including pterosaurs (the now-extinct flying reptiles) and modern crocodiles and their ancestors.
These and many other types of ancient reptiles are often wrongly called dinosaurs.
Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other reptiles in the same group (previously called 'mammal-like reptiles' and now called synapsids).
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