[HN Gopher] Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discove...
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       Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discovered in outback
       Queensland
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2022-12-06 21:38 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.abc.net.au)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.abc.net.au)
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | Complete is perhaps strong. At least one of every limb, but the
       | entire torso, neck and head. Its complete head neck and body
       | being contracted. It might be described as "substantially
       | complete" or "mostly complete" or "sufficiently complete".
       | 
       | It's the MVP of complete.
        
       | tablespoon wrote:
       | Eventually plesiosaurs will become mythical. The fossils will be
       | dug up and lost, the records fragmentary or unreadable.
        
       | ljf wrote:
       | Only tangentially linked - but blows me away how few fossil
       | dinosaurs have ever been found in new Zealand:
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dinosaurs_and_other_...
        
         | 867-5309 wrote:
         | probably a combination of geographical isolation, late human
         | discovery, small geo-/archaeologist population and recent
         | volcanism displacing dino treasure
        
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