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

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

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

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Scientists examined a fossilized plesiosaur’s soft tissue, revealing a unique mix of smooth and scaly skin. Smooth skin ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the ...

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

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

Wicklesham Quarry was recognised by both Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton as a globally significant fossil site ...

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

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