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Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales
A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...
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Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, ...
Eeny Meeny Miny Mo, Catch a Pterosaur by Its Neck
A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...
Paleontologists solve decades’ old mystery about plesiosaur skin texture
While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...
World’s oldest snake discovered in THIS country, his age is...
A team of paleontologists, led by Prof. Michael Caldwell, discovered 140-167 million-year-old fossils of four ancient legged snakes in Canada.
76-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Crocodile-Like Predator Found To Have Feasted on Flying Reptile
A juvenile pterosaur fossil found in Canada shows a crocodile bite from 76 million years ago, offering rare evidence of predator-prey dynamics during the Cretaceous Period. This marks the first North ...
The Mysterious First Dinosaurs Could Be Buried Beneath the Amazon Rainforest, According to Scientists
New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...