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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dinosven@sciencemastodon.com ("Sven Sachs") wrote:
! Big plesiosaur news !
Our paper that might change the way we look at plesiosaurs is published in Current Biology. We describe for the first time evidence for pigment cells and provide a detailed analysis of scales in a plesiosaur. We found scale-like structures at the limbs that may had a hydrodynamic effect and stiffened the paddles. Body and tail were scale-less.
I thank Miguel Marx and my fellow co-authors for being part of the team.
Artwork: Joschua Knüppe.
#science #news #biology #nature
