Rescue dog Raffle stumbled across the fossilised skeleton of a Jurassic plesiosaur during a walk with owner Tracey Barclay at Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 2007. The nine-year-old dog happened to take a ...

Raffle the rescue pooch may now be in doggy heaven, but his name lives on – in the form of a 200million-year-old fossil he discovered. The remarkably complete remains of a plesiosaur from the ...

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 ...

The discovery of a giant 100 million-year-old marine reptile’s skeleton in Australia has been hailed by researchers as a breakthrough that may provide vital clues about prehistoric life.

Discovery fuels Loch Ness Monster believers 03:35. The plesiosaur — an aquatic dinosaur once thought to exclusively reside in saltwater — is now believed to have spent much of its time in ...

An artistic rendering of a plesiosaur, an ancient marine predator that lived over 150 million years ago. (The Perot Museum of Nature and S) Although plesiosaurs evolved from land-dwelling animals ...

The 183-million-year-old, 4.5-metre-long plesiosaur fossil, known as MH7, was first excavated from a quarry near Holzmaden, ...

Mr. Marx and colleagues analyzed three soft-tissue skin samples, each about the size of a fingernail, from a flipper and the tail of a 183 million-year-old long-necked plesiosaur specimen.

The 183-million-year-old, 4.5-metre-long plesiosaur fossil, known as MH7, was first excavated from a quarry near Holzmaden, Germany, in 1940 but it was buried in a museum garden to protect it ...