When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks - some of which were up to 7 metres long - plesiosaurs have remained an evolutionary mystery for ...

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In 1984, Sankar Chatterjee – curator of paleontology for the Museum of Texas Tech University – and his student, Bryan Small, made an astounding discovery. Working on Seymour Island in Antarctica, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For dinosaur fans: A brand-new species of massive dinosaurs was discovered in Thailand, according to a story in Smithsonian ...

WASHINGTON - The remains of a giant sea creature are providing the first proof that these prehistoric reptiles gave birth to their young rather than laying eggs. Plesiosaurs, which lived at the time ...

The unique 78-million-year-old fossils of an adult plesiosaur and its unborn baby may provide the first evidence that these ancient animals gave live births, according to scientists. The ...

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Archeologists have determined that a unique specimen now displayed in a museum is the fossil of an embryonic marine reptile contained within the fossil of its mother. A paper to be published on August ...

The fossil bones of a giant, long-necked swimming reptile from the age of the dinosaurs have resolved a long-held mystery about the animals and how they reproduced. Those denizens of ancient seas - ...

Plesiosaurs — giant marine reptiles that ruled the oceans 75 million years ago — gave birth to single large babies and may even have nurtured their young, according to a new study. F. Robin O’Keefe, a ...