Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) was another supersize version of a modern animal. Fossilized teeth suggest that megalodon, which reigned over ocean ecosystems between around 23 million and 2.6 ...

That’s why sea monsters were created! Ancient cultures invented mythological sea monsters in an effort to explain some of the ...

The discovery reveals that the ancient “sea monsters” once patrolled the waters off of what was then the Gondwana supercontinent, which eventually broke up to create Australia, New Zealand ...

Sea monsters have a prominent role in myths and legends of most ... about a tentacled beast bothering seamen or generally getting up to no good,' Jon says. In ancient Greece, Aristotle and Pliny wrote ...

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A remarkable discovery in Morocco has shed light on a mysterious ancient marine predator, Carinodens acrodon, a small but highly specialised mosasaur that roamed the oceans during the late Cretaceous ...