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Scientists Discover First Juvenile Pleurosaurus, Solving a 150-Million-Year Mystery

Scientists Discover First Juvenile Pleurosaurus, Solving a 150-Million-Year Mystery

A new study published in The Anatomical Record unveils the first clearly identified juvenile specimen of the extinct genus Pleurosaurus, offering rare insight into the developmental biology of a marine reptile that lived 150 million years ago in what is now southern Germany. The fossil, found in the Mörnsheim Formation near Solnhofen, bridges a longstanding gap in paleontological knowledge about …

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