Plesiosaurs carried its young like a mammal, study finds
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 16:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The fossil of a pregnant plesiosaurs indicates that the marine reptile grew a fetus and did not lay eggs.Plesiosaurs — giant marine reptiles that ruled the oceans 75 millions years ago — gave birth to single large babies and may even have nurtured their young, according to a new study.