These Jurassic Marine Reptiles Had Stealth Wings (New Discovery)

In the news this week, an amazing ichthyosaur discovery that shows how they hunted silently using stealth tech, a story from last year gets an update - and confirmation, and a prehistoric mole may have travelled a rather long way...

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Sources:
Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Soft-tissue anatomy of titanosaur feet:
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

An unexpected fossil mole named as a new species:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/vul...

Betelgeuse's companion
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/b...
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/betelb...

Gray whale deaths:
https://abc7news.com/post/5-whales-di...
https://en.as.com/latest_news/scienti...
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/featur...

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Stealth-Winged Ichthyosaur
12:21 - Titanosaur Footprints
13:58 - Unexpected Fossil Mole
15:27 - Betelgeuse's Companion
16:57 - Gray Whale Deaths
18:32 - Outro