This Plesiopterys wildi specimen, unearthed from Holzmaden’s Posidonienschiefer Formation, reveals new insights into how plesiosaurs diversified and spread during the Early Jurassic. A newly ...

“Our research reinforces that plesiosaurs were already evolving specialized adaptations and distinct regional lineages much earlier than we used to believe,” Sven Sachs, a co-author of the study, said ...

Unlike ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, which dominate the fossil record of this formation, plesiosaurs are comparatively rare. The new discovery, therefore, provides a rare glimpse ...

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 ...

Published in PeerJ Life and Environment, the study details the discovery and analysis of an exceptionally well-preserved Plesiopterys wildi specimen, which offers new clues about the evolution and ...