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

Also called “Satsuma-Utsunomiyaryu,” the fossilized plesiosaur was found in a 100-million-year-old stratum from the Cretaceous Period by Utsunomiya, a Panasonic Corp. employee, in 2004.

Plesiosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era ... The bizarre body shapes of extinct animals make it difficult to draw parallels ...

The bones hint at the plesiosaur living and feeding in freshwater routinely. Because of this adaption, the scientists say it’s possible the Loch Ness monster did exist. However, it still wouldn ...

Experts spent 16 years working to extract and restore the 3.2m-long (10.5ft) plesiosaur skeleton. It has been nicknamed Raffle after Tracey Barclay's dog who first spotted the vertebrae in rocks ...