How the plesiosaurs were able to swim with just flippers
August 30, 2017 by Bob Yirka report
A team of researchers from the U.K. and Hungary has solved the mystery of how the dinosaur-era plesiosaurs were able to swim. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes reconstructing parts of the creature to learn how it moved.
The plesiosaurs were very large marine reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs but were not actually dinosaurs themselves. They swam the oceans and looked a lot like the descriptions of the mythical Loch Ness Monster.
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-plesiosaurs-flippers.html#jCp
