Fossil mystery solved: Super-long-necked reptiles lived in the ocean, not on land
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By CT scanning crushed fossilized skulls and digitally reassembling them, and by examining the fossils' growth rings, scientists were able to describe a new species of prehistoric sea creature. Tanystropheus hydroides, named after mythology's hydra, was a twenty-foot-long animal with a ten-foot-long neck.