While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have remained a mystery. But for the first time ever, researchers at Sweden’s Lund ...

The soft tissue of a plesiosaur has been studied in detail for the first time, revealing that the marine reptiles, which lived during the age of dinosaurs and went extinct at the same time, had scales ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.

The new research team confirmed it was a plesiosaur from approximately 183 million years ago, a marine reptile that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and died out after the extinction event.

Over the years, Pokemon have expanded their inspiration from common animals to prehistorical creatures to create these ...

6. Little is known about the lives of plesiosaurs, which had four paddlelike limbs and are classified into a different group from dinosaurs. “With the latest findings, we can picture how ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...

Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of not one, but two apex predator groups coexisting in ancient Victoria, Australia.

Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings. Plesiosaurus, an early plesiosaur, was about 4.5 metres ...

French customs officers seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a ... marine reptile called a zarafasaura oceanis, a type of plesiosaurus at least 66 million years old first discovered in ...