No, I love vultures in a really sick way too. What they do when they feed on a carcass is repulsive but—let’s face it—it makes for fascinating viewing. Vultures are the ultimate antihero ...

“Plesiosaur fossils have been known for decades in British Columbia,” explains the study’s author, Professor F. Robin O’Keefe from Marshall University. Until now, however, a veil of ...

Terengganu Fisheries Department director Pang Nyukang said the carcass of the adult turtle, measuring about 91 centimetres (cm) in length and 76cm in width, was found floating at the water’s edge by a ...

An iconic and much-loved ancient sea monster has been revealed to be an entirely new and "very odd" species of plesiosaur—solving a nearly 40-year-old fossil mystery. Traskasaura sandrae ...

Elasmosaurs themselves were some of the some of the largest plesiosaurs–or a group of extinct marine reptiles–to have ever lived. Now, this new species of these long-necked plesiosaurs that ...

Its unique suite of adaptations enabled this plesiosaur to hunt prey from above. The findings suggest that the fierce marine reptile was perhaps one of the first plesiosaur taxa to do so. The ...

The carcass of a baby elephant was found in the Sambalpur forest division of Odisha. Local residents reported the find, and forest staff are investigating the cause of death, which will be confirmed ...

Its unique suite of adaptations enabled this plesiosaur to hunt prey from above. The findings suggest that the fierce marine reptile was perhaps one of the first plesiosaur taxa to do so. The ...

Even for an expert on plesiosaurs, a group of extinct marine reptiles O’Keefe likens to a “Mesozoic version of whales” to which elasmosaurs belong, there was “a lot of head scratching ...

Even for an expert on plesiosaurs, a group of extinct marine reptiles O’Keefe likens to a “Mesozoic version of whales” to which elasmosaurs belong, there was “a lot of head scratching” to figure out ...