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

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

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

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

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 ...

According to the official synopsis, Earth’s ecology has “proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs” — convenient! — and the surviving creatures have populated areas around the equator.

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

A record-breaking hadrosaur? Until now, the largest hadrosaur skeleton belonged to Shantungosaurus, a dinosaur found in China. However, the newly discovered footprints in Mongolia suggest that ...