Plesiosaur specimen MH 7 with comparisons. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.001 A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found ...
In the rolling hills of southwest Germany, there is a rock layer that has yielded some of the most spectacular marine fossils in the world. Known as the Posidonia Shale, this 183-million-year-old ...
Plesiosaurs are a group of extinct marine reptiles that lived in the oceans while the dinosaurs lived on land. Find out what plesiosaur fossils have revealed about these animals and how big they could ...
The ancient world was a bizarre place, populated by peculiar creatures that defied imagination, from the depths of the ocean to the highest reaches of the sky. Among them was the fearsome plesiosaur, ...
The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...