Ancient Plesiosaur Skin Reveals Smooth Tail and Scaly Flippers
A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil (MH7) preserved skin showing a smooth tail and small scales along the rear edges of the flippers, offering rare soft-tissue insights that help reconstruct these sea predators and infer swimming adaptations; soft-tissue preservation is exceptionally rare, with only a handful of plesiosaurs known to have such specimens.
