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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...