Plesiosaurs were remarkable marine reptiles that once thrived in the vast expanses of ancient ocean. They were long-necked predators that dominated the seas during the Mesozoic era, while dinosaurs ...

The discovery of preserved skin on a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur is revolutionizing our understanding of these extinct marine reptiles. By analyzing the soft tissues of this fossil, researchers ...

The soft tissue of a plesiosaur has been studied in detail for the first time, revealing that the marine reptiles, which lived during the age of dinosaurs and went extinct at the same time ...

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 reconstruct ...

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.

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have examined fossilized soft tissue from a plesiosaur for the first time, revealing that the ancient marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. The study, ...

Plesiosaur skeleton. Image by eileenmak, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Mesozoic Era, often referred to as the ...

Scaly or smooth? That has long been one of paleontology’s enduring questions about the plesiosaur. While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s ...

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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed 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 ...