While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

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.

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 ...

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.

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