You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

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

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

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

Paleontologists Discover a Rare 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Marine Reptile, Provide an Insight Into Its Evolution A great ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, ...