Plesiosaur fossils found in Egypt’s western desert

Egyptian paleontologists discovered fossils from a 65-million-year-old marine reptile in the southern province of New Valley. The discovery consisted of eight vertebrae from the abdominal area of a plesiosaur, the president of New Valley University, Abdel Aziz Tantawy reported. The plesiosaurs first appeared more than 200 million years ago and went extinct 65 million years ago.