100-million-year-old elasmosaur fossil uncovered in Australia

A rare fossil of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile （爬行動物）was discovered in Queensland, Australia, in December last year. The specimen was an elasmosaur（薄片龍屬；薄板龍）, which is a plesiosaur（蛇頸龍） that co-existed with dinosaurs during the Late Cretaceous Period （白堊紀晚期）.  About 145 million to 65 million years ago, much of Queensland was covered in a vast, shallow sea, known as the Eromanga Sea. Fossil remains （殘骸） of ancient ...Read More