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.

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