You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

Paleontologists Discover a Rare 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Marine Reptile, Provide an Insight Into Its Evolution A great paleontological find shook the scientific world. A rare ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Experts spent 16 years working to extract and restore the 3.2m-long (10.5ft) plesiosaur skeleton. It has been nicknamed Raffle after Tracey Barclay's dog who first spotted the vertebrae in rocks ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers similar to modern sea turtle species.

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 ...

Plesiosaurs lived in the world's oceans for much of the Mesozoic Era (203-66 million years ago). These reptiles, which could grow up to 12 meters long, fed on fish and moved much like sea turtles ...

Scaly or smooth? That has long been one of paleontology’s enduring questions about the plesiosaur. While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have examined fossilized soft tissue from a plesiosaur for the first time, revealing that the ancient marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. The study, ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly ...