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Some Plesiosaurs Had Smooth Skin on Their Body and Scales on Their Flippers


Paleontologists have examined a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with well-preserved skin traces from around the tail and front flipper from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale of southern Germany.

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