{"id":4443,"date":"2025-05-23T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:28:29","slug":"biology-researchers-okeefe-and-clark-publish-discovery-of-new-plesiosaur-genus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/05\/23\/biology-researchers-okeefe-and-clark-publish-discovery-of-new-plesiosaur-genus\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology researchers O&#8217;Keefe and Clark publish discovery of new plesiosaur genus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share that Dr. Robin O\u2019Keefe and Robbie Clark, along with former Biological Sciences students Anna Perella and Elliott Armour Smith, have just published a major paleontology discovery\u2014a brand-new genus of plesiosaur from Canada!<\/p>\n<p>This newly identified marine reptile adds a fresh chapter to our understanding of prehistoric life in North America. Their research appears in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology and highlights the rich diversity of these long-necked marine reptiles that once swam the ancient seas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-mystery-odd-elasmosaur-north-america.html\">Read more about their discovery in the write-up at Phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14772019.2025.2489938\">Read the full paper in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. O\u2019Keefe, Robbie, Anna, and Elliott on this fantastic achievement! We love seeing Biology scientists\u2014past and present\u2014make waves in the world of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share that Dr. Robin O\u2019Keefe and Robbie Clark, along with former Biological Sciences students Anna Perella and Elliott Armour Smith, have just published a major paleontology discovery\u2014a brand-new genus of plesiosaur from Canada! This newly identified marine reptile adds a fresh chapter to our understanding of prehistoric life in North America. Their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/biology-plesiosaur-okeefe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}