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Soft tissue from a 183 million-year-old Jurassic plesiosaur analyzed

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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time.

The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin.

This was likely so it could both swim rapidly and move along rough seabeds.

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