Among the stranger creatures to roam the earth during the time of the dinosaurs was not a dinosaur at all, but a marine reptile — the plesiosaur. This odd predator navigated Mesozoic Era waters with ...

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A remarkably complete and well-preserved fossil has revealed that at least some ...

A rare dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in Australia — and its discovery could be groundbreaking. The Queensland Museum announced this week that the skeleton of a 100-million-year-old "long-necked ...

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests ...

The discovery of preserved skin on a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur is revolutionizing our understanding of these extinct marine reptiles. By analyzing the soft tissues of this fossil, researchers ...

The plesiosaur is long extinct, but thanks to a biomechanical engineer, it has been reincarnated — as a robot. This new so-called “robosaur” reveals the secret behind the animal’s odd but powerful ...

WASHINGTON - The remains of a giant sea creature are providing the first proof that these prehistoric reptiles gave birth to their young rather than laying eggs. Plesiosaurs, which lived at the time ...

The fossil bones of a giant, long-necked swimming reptile from the age of the dinosaurs have resolved a long-held mystery about the animals and how they reproduced. Those denizens of ancient seas - ...

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"The fact that this guy had a body and head in the same animal is really important for us," said Dr. Espen Knutsen, senior curator of paleontology at the Queensland Museum Abigail Adams is a Human ...