Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

“After being properly prepared, it became evident that (the new species was) part of a rare group of herbivorous/omnivorous crocodyliforms from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana (around 120 million ...

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

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

The discovery of preserved skin on a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur is revolutionizing our understanding of these extinct ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.

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

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...