Sotheby’s is selling mounted fossil skeletons of a Pteranodon from the late Cretaceous and a Plesiosaur from the lower Jurassic—both considered fearsome predators—at a natural history auction on July ...
A study published in PeerJby paleontologists Sven Sachs and Daniel Madzia has reclassified a nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton found in 1978 in Holzmaden, Germany, as a new genus and species. Named ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in Australia — and its discovery could be groundbreaking. The Queensland Museum ...
STORY: The team of paleontologists led by Dr. Espen Knutsen from the Queensland Museum Network, said the fossil of the ancient Elasmosaurus, discovered in the remote McKinley region of Queensland, ...
Finding an articulated fossil skeleton is always a delight for paleontologists. Not only do such specimens illustrate how all those bones went together, but sometimes there are little associated ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest plesiosaur skeleton, an underwater reptile that swam in Earth’s oceans 201 million years ago. Described in the journal Science Advances, researchers from the ...
The discovery of a giant 100 million-year-old marine reptile’s skeleton in Australia has been hailed by researchers as a breakthrough that may provide vital clues about prehistoric life. The remains ...
Amid 70-mile-an-hour winds and freezing Antarctic conditions, an American-Argentine research team has recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur--a marine reptile that swam ...