A team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has filled a major gap in the state's fossil record—describing the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas.
Paleontology & Fossils
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Queensland Museum Network paleontologists have excavated Australia's first head and associated body of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile in what has been described as the Rosetta Stone of marine reptile paleontology.
Evolution
Dec 6, 2022
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A team of researchers studying a plesiosaur found at a dig site in Wyoming identified it as a long-necked marine reptile. In their paper published in the journal iScience, the group outlines their findings and where the specimen ...
Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests some species of plesiosaur, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 26, 2022
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Plesiosaurs, which lived about 210 million years ago, adapted to life underwater in a unique way: their front and hind legs evolved in the course of evolution to form four uniform, wing-like flippers. In her thesis supervised ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 3, 2022
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Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that body size is more important than body shape in determining the energy economy of swimming for aquatic animals.
Evolution
Apr 28, 2022
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The fossilized remains of a gigantic ichthyosaur, colloquially known as a "sea dragon," were recently uncovered at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in the UK. Measuring at least ten meters in length and with a skull weighing ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 20, 2022
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New Zealand's fossil record of land dinosaurs is poor, with just a few bones, but the collection of ancient extinct marine reptiles is remarkable, including shark-like mosasaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 3, 2022
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In the Mesozoic era, about 250 to 65 million years ago a large number of reptiles populated the oceans. The most successful were the plesiosaurs, which existed for about the same time as the dinosaurs. Enlarged red blood ...
Archaeology
Dec 2, 2019
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Plesiosaurs, erroneously viewed as dinosaurs, inhabited all Earth's oceans between 200 million and 65 million years ago. In the Peninsula, only scarce remains of these long-necked reptiles had been found. Now, a group of ...
Archaeology
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