'Pregnant plesiosaur' examined
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 13:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A paper to be published on August 12, 2011 in Science reveals that Dr. F. Robin O'Keefe of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. and Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum's Dinosaur Institute, have determined that a unique specimen now displayed in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the fossil of an embryonic marine reptile contained within the fossil of its mother.