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

We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers similar to modern sea turtle species.

July 27, 2022 — Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert ...

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