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it's thursday july 28th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Why a new discovery about

Pleasiosaurus has gotten everyone talking about the Loch Ness monster. Plus, the oldest DNA

from a horse domesticated in the Americas might have solved a centuries-old mystery,

and the scoop on that 13-eyed anthropomorphic oyster mascot from Halifax.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

All right, it's time to address the 45-ton elephant in the room, and by elephant, I mean,

pleasaur. New findings about the Mesozoic marine reptile have spurred a flurry of headlines

about scientists saying the Loch Ness monster could be plausible. But it's time to throw some

cold Scottish lock water on these rumors. So here's what scientists actually discovered.

Pleasiosaurus, long-necked reptiles with four flippers who were about 10 feet long,

have, since our discovery of them 200 years ago, thought to have only lived in saltwater.

Writing this month in the journal Cretaceous Research, a team led by Georgina Bunker and Nick Longrich

from the University of Bath forward the hypothesis that pleasosaurs actually lived in freshwater

environments as well. Now, this comes after the discovery of a

bevy of plesiosaur fossils were discovered in the Kem-Kem-Beds of southeastern Morocco. Now,

on the northwestern edge of the Sahara Desert, a hundred million years ago, the area was a river

system and home to tons of ancient creatures whose fossils have been discovered

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