Weird deep-sea plesiosaur

https://twitter.com/Prehistorica_CM/status/1416089188563406857?s=09

High lung capacity - but does that help with compression?
Skull features mentioned.
I read the paper, but it starts a long, deep dive into the literature to get to why they think it's specifically deep-diving adaptations. Needs considerably more work.
I roughtly translated a Russian paper about this.

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