A new long-necked marine reptile, Plesionectes longicollum, has been identified from a decades-old fossil found in Germany’s ...

A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a plesiosaur.

The adult female, named Pennywise and weighing 302 pounds (137 kilograms), was deemed healthy and strong enough to return to ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.