For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

Researchers Discover an Exceptionally-Preserved Fossil From the Alps, Reveal That This Ancient Reptile Lurked on Land and Not ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil represented a distinct species from its much smaller peers. Not so, researchers report ...

a type of flying reptile called a pterosaur, that may have died in just such a scenario. The fossil, examined under a microscope and with micro-CT scans, has a conical puncture a sixth of an inch ...