It was an eagle-eye view from the cab of her hydraulic shovel that allowed operator Jenna Plamondon to notice the fossil remains of a plesiosaur at the Mildred Lake site on March 12. Fossils of this ...

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18960 A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is providing crucial evidence about the diversification of these ancient marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic.

Pliosaurs were a type of plesiosaur with short necks and massive skulls. They appeared over 200 million years ago, but remained minor components of marine ecosystems until suddenly developing into ...

Microscopic analysis of the soft tissues Plesiosaurs were Mesozoic marine reptiles with a 140-million-year evolutionary history. These creatures dominated the world’s oceans.

According to Interesting Engineering, plesiosaurs had a brilliant history from the Late Triassic through to the Late Cretaceous, living side-by-side with dinosaurs but uniquely ruling the seas.

Plesiosaur specimen MH 7 with comparisons. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.001 A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has ...

A newly discovered plesiosaur fossil suggests several species of the long-necked marine dinosaur roamed the oceans 180 million years ago. The nearly complete specimen of Plesiopterys wildi from ...

An artistic rendering of a plesiosaur, an ancient marine predator that lived over 150 million years ago. (The Perot Museum of Nature and S) Although plesiosaurs evolved from land-dwelling animals ...

The plesiosaur, a long-extinct marine reptile, lived in the lower Jurassic Period, about 200 million years ago, and is thought to have inspired the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, a mythical ...

MU’s new published research on fossil plesiosaur Traskasaura sandrae The API failed to deliver the resource. Professor Robert Clark on Studio 3.

That has long been one of paleontology’s enduring questions about the plesiosaur. While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin ...