
Fossil de Plesiosaurus remarkably well preserved from Germany shows that they had turtle skin
Skeleton of the New Plesiosaur in Urwelt-Museum Hauffa in Holzmaden, Germany. Credit: Klaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff. A Plesiosaur fossil of 183 million years found in Germany has preserved the soft tissue that reveals that the old marine reptiles had turtle scales. New research helps to give life to these prehistoric creatures in a way that has…