Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.

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

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

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

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

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

Analysis of the fossil skin of a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur revealed that it had a mixture of smooth and scaly skin.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...