Thanks for the quick summary. All I wanted to know is what the "ancient monster" was, without having to go through the tedium of roundabouting the paywalled article and its clickbait title..
Are fossils well preserved on the deep ocean floor or in extraordinary deep locations like trenches? What about under the sea floor?
I suppose there must be bone-eating organisms on the floor, given the number of dead bony animals that must lie there. But there is also a lot of pressure and I don't know how seawater affects fossilization.
I'm really wondering: if we could get easier access to the deep ocean floor, would it impact archaeology in a big way?
> when they lived from 215 million to 66 million years ago.
I hadn't thought about it, but what happened to organisms living underwater during the K-T extinction event (which was 66 million years ago).
rock hound here
I have soft tissue fossils,skin and scales, crinonind body parts, plant fossils, and a small trackway
other trace fossils,like waves from an ancient beach....found on a modern beach:)
my observation is that the amount of actual field work bieng done is low, and that setting up a world wide app, that would connect accredited researchers with dedicated field workers(rock hounds)(( and pay them and credit them)), could advance our study of lifes origins and path in a timely and cost effective way.
there are a bunch of competeing apps for geo locating varios flora and fauna, that combine field work with a social media aspect
seem popular, but personaly, no one is getting my
gps co-ordinates, without paying me.,...every time
“Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...