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

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.

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 ...

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