A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

Lida Xing/NatureThe tiny dinosaur known as Oculudentavis Khaungraae ... amber it looks like it just died yesterday — all the soft tissue in place trapped into this little window into an ancient ...

An unassuming brown pebble, found ... tissue has been so well-preserved is that the dinosaur’s brain was essentially ‘pickled’ in a highly acidic and low-oxygen body of water – similar to a bog or ...

Additionally, bones and tracks don't line up exactly - the bones lack the soft tissue that was part of the foot or hand that made the print Bones found close to a tracksite are unlikely to belong to ...

Since the birth of paleontology, scientists have hotly debated whether dinosaurs were cold- or warm-blooded. It's been commonly suggested that warm-bloodedness was an avian innovation, something ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the ...