New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China have unearthed fossils of *Dinocephalosaurus orientalis*, a 240-million-year-old marine ...

Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs – leaving their distinct burrows behind in the process. New research, published in ...

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Plesiosaurs were characterized by having small heads on long necks, broad bodies and four large, paddle-like limbs. The mythical Loch Ness Monster is usually depicted as a plesiosaur.

While the area where this fossil was found—called the Posidonienschiefer Formation near Holzmaden—is famous for marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and ancient crocodile relatives, plesiosaurs ...

Unlike ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, which dominate the fossil record of the formation, plesiosaurs are comparatively rare. Plesiosaur on land. One of Heinrich Harder's murals for the ...

Unlike ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, which dominate the fossil record of the formation, plesiosaurs are comparatively rare.

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since paleontologists uncovered the first specimen more than two centuries ago. Their ...