Date: August 31, 2017
Source: Texas Tech University
Summary:
In 1984, Sankar Chatterjee -
curator of paleontology for the Museum of Texas Tech University - and his
student, Bryan Small, made an astounding discovery.
Working on Seymour Island in
Antarctica, they uncovered the fossilized skull of an animal they'd never seen
before. While it was obviously a plesiosaur - a Cretaceous-period marine
reptile scientists first discovered in the early 1600s - this plesiosaur was
unlike any previously found. They named the new species Morturneria and brought
its skeleton back to the Museum of Texas Tech.
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