With four flippers, how did the plesiosaur swim? Like a penguin, study says

Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 14:54 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Among the stranger creatures to roam the earth during the time of the dinosaurs was not a dinosaur at all, but a marine reptile — the plesiosaur. This odd predator navigated Mesozoic Era waters with four flippers — two in the front and two in the back — a design unlike anything seen in modern-day...

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