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 ...

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

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...

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

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

The sinuses of the ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from becoming deep divers like dolphins and whales, according […] ...