Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

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

"When you descale a fish you will notice the skin becoming like a net," he said, "and the parts where the scales are attached are lighter in color and tend to snap easily." So what kinds of fish ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

“Even these spines from this really odd, derived group of fishes, the pufferfish, still use the same set of genes that makes hair, feathers, fish scales, and shark dermal denticles.” Pufferfish belong ...

Mid to late winter is a quiet time for ponds in Arkansas. Low temperatures keep warmwater fish species lethargic and feeding ...

Scientists examined a fossilized plesiosaur’s soft tissue, revealing a unique mix of smooth and scaly skin. Smooth skin ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

Mid to late winter is a quiet time for ponds in Arkansas. Low temperatures keep warmwater fish species lethargic and feeding ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...