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

A 183-million-year-old fossil with exceptionally well-preserved soft tissues has revealed that some plesiosaurs were covered ...

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

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

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

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

Plesiosaur: A group of marine reptiles characterized by their long necks and small heads or large heads with short necks, existing from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Phylogenetics ...

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 ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...

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 ...