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100 million years.. Discovering a gigantic marine organism in Australia

Queensland That "plesiosaur" Unearthed in the remote area of ​​McKinley, the ancients could help solve the mysteries of evolution objects on earth.

Commenting on the discovery, Queensland Museum chief scientist Espen Knutsen said in a statement: "We were so excited when we saw this fossil. And how Rosetta Stone of marine paleontology because it may hold a key to revealing the diversification and evolution of long-necked plesiosaurs in the Cretaceous period in Australia".

Knutsen added: "It is the earliest known head and body of the Australian Ilasmosaurus, a plesiosaur that lived in the Era dinosaursand wandered at first Cretaceous period. It lived in the Eromanga Sea, which covered most of Australia’s interior 140 million to 100 million years ago."according to the agency "UPI extension" for the news

According to the museum, it is rare to find a head and body preserved together, because these fragments usually separate after death, due to this animal’s long, thin neck.

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Museum researchers said Queensland An ancient ‘plesiosaur’ discovered in remote McKinley could help solve the mysteries of evolution. objects on earth.

Commenting on the find, Museum of Queensland chief scientist Espen Knutsen said in a statement: ‘We were so excited when we saw this fossil. Rosetta Stone of marine paleontology because it may hold a key to revealing the diversification and evolution of long-necked plesiosaurs in the Cretaceous period in Australia“.

Knutsen added: ‘It is the first known head and body of an Australian elasmosaur, a plesiosaur that lived in the dinosaursand wandered at first Cretaceous period. It lived in the Eromanga Sea, which covered most of Australia’s interior 140 million to 100 million years ago,” UBI news agency said.

According to the museum, it is rare to find a head and body preserved together, because these fragments usually separate after death, due to this animal’s long, thin neck.

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