Aug 4, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified an unusual new genus and species of early-diverging plesiosauroid plesiosaur from a nearly complete skeleton found in the...

May 23, 2025 by News Staff

Traskasaura sandrae, a 12-m-long elasmosaur (a type of plesiosaur) that lived in the Cretaceous seas, 85 million years ago, had a strange mix of primitive...

Mar 31, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists in Germany have unearthed an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of an Early-Jurassic plesiosauroid species called Plesiopterys wildi. The...

Feb 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have examined a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with well-preserved skin traces from around the tail and front flipper from the...

Apr 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of elasmosaurid — a type of plesiosaur with an extremely long, slender neck — has been identified from the fossilized...

Mar 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of plesiosaur that lived near the onset of the Early-Middle Jurassic turnover has been identified from two exquisite, three-dimensionally...

Jan 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of small polycotylid plesiosaur from two specimens found in Wyoming and South Dakota in the United...

Oct 23, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Lorrainosaurus keileni lived in the Middle Jurassic seas, approximately 170 million years ago. An artist’s impression of Lorrainosaurus keileni. Image...

Sep 4, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified a new species of plesiosaur ancestor based on two new specimens from the Early Triassic Nanzhang-Yuan’an Fauna of China....

Jun 27, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists say they collected numerous vertebrate specimens from the Late Jurassic Malone Formation in the Malone Mountains of western Texas, the...

May 10, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists have unearthed four cervical vertebrae of Jurassic pliosaurid in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The...

Sep 27, 2022 by News Staff

Unlike most plesiosaurs, Serpentisuchops pfisterae had both a long neck and large, elongated jaws. Serpentisuchops pfisterae used both its neck and snout...

Sep 4, 2017 by News Staff

In 1984, Texas Tech University paleontologists Sankar Chatterjee and Bryan Small unearthed the fossilized skull of a previously unknown marine reptile...

Aug 29, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a study published Friday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, paleontologists report the discovery of a partially-preserved skeleton of one of...