A new study on Tanystropheus

A recent study has unveiled fresh details surrounding the Tanystropheus.
It is a reptile that lived on Earth some 242 million years ago.
It had a remarkably elongated neck which was longer than its body and tail combined.
They are believed to have lived around the Monte San Giorgio basin on the Swiss-Italian border during the middle Triassic period (247-237 million years ago).
They were originally mistaken to be a kind of Pterosaur – a flying reptile.
Other crucial aspects like its diet, whether it lived on land or water or both are unknown since its fossil was first discovered some 150 years ago.
A group of scientists studied two specimens of the reptile – a full adult and a smaller animal.
Scientists used a high-resolution computed tomography (CT scan) to reconstruct a three-dimensional (3D) prototype of the crushed skull.
It is found that it was hunted underwater in an aquatic environment and the placement of the nostrils on the top of the snout would have made survival on land difficult.