image: Skeleton of Rhaeticosaurus, on exhibit at the LWL-Museum für Naturkunde in Münster (Germany). The disintegrated skull and neck can be seen on the left. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 December 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Wintrich at Universität Bonn in Bonn, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "A Triassic plesiosaurian skeleton and bone histology inform on evolution of a unique body plan." view more
Credit: [Credit: Georg Oleschinski]