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 ...

An iconic and much-loved ancient sea monster has been revealed to be an entirely new and "very odd" species of plesiosaur—solving a nearly 40-year-old fossil mystery.. Traskasaura sandrae, which ...

Discovery fuels Loch Ness Monster believers 03:35. The plesiosaur — an aquatic dinosaur once thought to exclusively reside in saltwater — is now believed to have spent much of its time in ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers similar to modern sea turtle species.

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 ...

The mythical Loch Ness monster may, in fact, be real. Fossils of plesiosaurs were found in the Morocco portion of the Sahara Desert.

Scaly or smooth? 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 ...

The remains belonged to a relatively small type of plesiosaur, as they consisted of bones and teeth from 3-meter-long (9.8-ft) adults, along with a forelimb bone from a 1.5-m (4.9-ft) juvenile.

Contrary to previous beliefs, the plesiosaur spent time in freshwater. Still, scientists doubt the reptile was the Loch Ness monster. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

The discovery of a giant 100 million-year-old marine reptile’s skeleton in Australia has been hailed by researchers as a breakthrough that may provide vital clues about prehistoric life.

The Plesiosaur fossil is displayed during a press preview at Sotheby's, July 10, 2023, in New York. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images. A pair of dinosaur fossils of species that roamed the Earth ...

Mr. Marx and colleagues analyzed three soft-tissue skin samples, each about the size of a fingernail, from a flipper and the tail of a 183 million-year-old long-necked plesiosaur specimen.