Mystery of “very odd” elasmosaur finally solved: one of North America’s most famous fossils identified as new species
This primitive 85-million-year-old, 12 metre-long, fiercely predatory marine reptile is unlike any elasmosaur known to-date and hunted its prey from above A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike […]