News Conference Discussing Discovery of Unique Juvenile Plesiosaur Fossil

Scientists discussed the discovery of a unique juvenile plesiosaur fossil skeleton at a press conference in Washington, D.C.

PARTICIPANTS: Expedition co-leaders James E. Martin, the curator of vertebrate paleontology and the paleontology program coordinator at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology's Museum of Geology; Judd Case, of Eastern Washington University; and Sergio Marenssi, director of the Instituto Antarctico Argentino. Tom Wagner, geology and geophysics program director for the U.S. Antarctic Program, will participate in the news conference by phone from the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco.