Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Caption Reconstruction of the new plesiosaur with scales on the flipper and smooth scale-less skin along the body as informed by this new plesiosaur fossil. This is a significant update to how we ...

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

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

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species.

It's additionally possible that the hard scales could have helped the plesiosaurs maintain traction and avoid injury as they "bottom-walked" along the seabed while grazing on bottom-dwelling mollusks.