Marshall says the new genus has officially been named “Traskasaura sandrae,” and that it was a “39-foot-long, long-necked ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is ...

A strange, long-necked marine predator from the age of dinosaurs has finally received its name, after more than 20 years of ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans ... similar to the features of some living sea turtle species.Credit...Klaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff ...

Scientists discovered 85-Million-Year Old Sea Monster fossils in Canada, and identified it as a new species named Traskasaura sandrae.

Plesiosaurs such as Polycotylus gave live birth instead of laying eggs on land. Nobu Tamura via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Some marine reptiles alive today lay their eggs on land. Sea turtles ...

That has long been one of paleontology’s enduring questions about the plesiosaur ... soft tissues from other prehistoric marine reptiles, including ancient sea turtles and ichthyosaurs.

A little more than 200 years ago, naturalists in Maastricht, Netherlands unearthed an enormous creature’s skull, one that belonged to what came to be called âÄúthe unknown animal of Maastricht ...

the researchers identified a group of fossils found near British Columbia’s Vancouver Island that belong to a new genus of a type of sea creature called plesiosaurs. The genus is a biological ...

Elasmosaurs were large sea ... plesiosaur I have ever seen." The Pacific Northwest "finally has a Mesozoic reptile to call its own," said O'Keefe, who is an expert on prehistoric marine animals ...