(Ha'aretz) Ruth Schuster - Gideon Ragolsky of the Dead Sea and Arava Center was conducting an archaeological survey in the Negev desert one day in 2012 when he noticed a bone sticking out of the hillside. It was a vertebra of an elasmosaurus, an 8-meter-long reptile from the days of the dinosaurs 85 million years ago. Scientists found about 20 pieces of skeleton, including seven vertebrae and a tooth. The site, about five km. south of Moshav Faran, was part of the prehistoric Tethys Sea seafloor.
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