242m-year-old reptile’s neck was three times longer than torso

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. Scientists describe the weird 20-foot-long creature and its incredible giraffe-like neck as a ‘paleontological absurdity’.  Fossils of the creature, belonging to the Tanystropheus genus, were discovered back in 1852 and have been puzzling … Read more