A 242 million-year-old reptile with a neck three times the length of its torso lived in the ocean, a 3D skull reconstruction reveals. Experts couldn't tell how the creature would have been able to support its ludicrously long neck if it had been roaming on land during the middle Triassic period. The Tanystropheus genus also evolved into two different species, one larger than the other, the new research concludes. 'Tanystropheus looked like a stubby crocodile with a very, very long neck. Scientists still weren't sure if it lived on land or in the water, and they didn't know if smaller specimens were juveniles or a completely different species.

Source: Daily Mail August 06, 2020 15:02 UTC