The examination indicates that some plesiosaurs possessed both smooth skin on their bodies and small scales on their flippers ...

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

A “pellet” found in a plesiosaur fossil unearthed in Kagoshima ... suggesting that they are skeletal elements of a small creature. The fact that they were crushed into fine pieces indicates ...

Dolichorhynchops was a short-necked plesiosaur that used long ... with large eyes well adapted to spying small prey. Long, narrow jaws filled with 30 to 40 sharp teeth in a single row allowed ...

Scientists said they identified fossils of plesiosaurs in an ancient river system, which may indicate they lived in freshwater areas — like Loch Ness in Scotland — and not only seawater Jason ...

It was found near the site where a plesiosaur fossil was unearthed in 2004, the board of education announced on Aug. 26. A research team said the two fossilized species are some of the oldest in ...