The first scientifically documented plesiosaur fossils were discovered during the early 19th century by Mary Anning. [1] Plesiosaurs were actually discovered and described before dinosaurs. [2] They ...
Plesiosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era, from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous periods. While dinosaurs roamed the land, plesiosaurs ... movements in real time, just like a real plesiosaur.
Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55805-z "Instead of focusing solely on how water interacts with plesiosaur bodies—that is, the hydrodynamics of swimming—we decided ...
This is the robotic mechanism wherein the flipper movements can be adjusted directly in real-time so it could mimic the flexible and adaptive swimming techniques that the plesiosaur must have ...
A plesiosaur with a unique morphology. Credit: Akira Fukuhara. A team of scientists may have finally solved the mystery of how plesiosaurs—ancient marine reptiles with four large flippers ...