A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is providing crucial evidence about the diversification of these ancient marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic. Unearthed from the ...
(Image Credit: Klaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff/Marx et al.) After making a splash in early 2025 with the identification of its 183-million-year-old fossilized skin, the plesiosaur fossil MH7 ...
A nearly complete specimen of Plesiopterys wildi from Germany provides fresh insights into plesiosaur diversity and regional specialisation A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern ...
It offers new clues about the evolution and geographic distribution of plesiosaurs in Europe nearly 180 million years ago, according to the international research team. Unearthed from the Lower ...
What had not been documented was whether mammals were becoming more terrestrial, in line with the habitat changes." While previous studies used complete skeletons to study ancient mammal movement ...
A nearly complete specimen of Plesiopterys wildi from Germany provides fresh insights into plesiosaur diversity and regional specialisation A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is ...
A newly discovered plesiosaur fossil from Germany reveals that these ancient marine reptiles were evolving into distinct regional species far earlier than scientists believed. (Artist’s concept.) ...
Fish filled in the oceans, food to fuel sharks, which were fast ruling the waters in the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. Squid and other soft-bodied cephalopods ...
It offers new clues about the evolution and geographic distribution of plesiosaurs in Europe nearly 180 million years ago, according to the international research team. Unearthed from the Lower ...