Fossilized soft tissue is exceptionally rare in plesiosaur fossils. The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The ...

Led by Miguel Marx, a doctoral student at Lund University in Sweden, an international team of researchers studied a rare plesiosaur fossil known as MH7, which remarkably retained traces of soft ...

As detailed in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the fossil could represent the oldest bird known to scientists and sheds light on the surprising diversification of birds during ...