An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes the study of a new species belonging to the pliosaurid group called Luskhan itilensis discovered in present-day Russia about 130 million years ago. A team of scientists including Gleb N. Uspensky of Ulyanovsk State University, who discovered this marine reptile, examined the fossils concluding that there were evolutionary convergences between different species after an extinction that happened at the end of the Jurassic period.