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

A remarkable discovery in palaeontology has emerged from the re-examination of a fossil originally unearthed over four decades ago in the Posidonia Shale of Germany. The fossil, which has long been a subject of scientific intrigue,

Learn more about Plesionectes longicollum, a well-preserved plesiosaurioid that's the oldest known from the Posidonia Shale fossil beds in Holzmaden, Germany.