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Plesiosaur fossils found in the Sahara suggest they weren't just marine animals

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-07-26

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests some species of plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater.

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