Archive for July 18th, 2013

Rare Fossil of Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur Discovered

University of Alabama researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of a large marine reptile that once ruled the open seas 80 million years ago. The initial discovery, made June 20 by middle-school student Noah Traylor during a UA-hosted expedition, was later identified as part of a large neck vertebra of an elasmosaur, which is a […]