Plesiosaur fossil (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Plesiosaur fossil

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Steve May, a research associate at the Jackson School of Geosciences, holds a fossil from a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile. The fossil is among the first Jurassic vertebrate fossils discovered and described in Texas.

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Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences/ The University of Texas at Austin.

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