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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

13 December 2017

A nearly complete skeleton of an early long-necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction
The mass extinction that might never have happened

The mass extinction that might never have happened

19 October 2017

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all

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