Among the stranger creatures to roam the earth during the time of the dinosaurs was not a dinosaur at all, but a marine reptile — the plesiosaur. This odd predator navigated Mesozoic Era waters with ...

The plesiosaur is long extinct, but thanks to a biomechanical engineer, it has been reincarnated -- as a robot. This new so-called "robosaur" reveals the secret behind the animal's odd but powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient world was a bizarre place, populated by peculiar creatures that defied imagination, from the depths of the ocean to ...

Plesiosaurs were especially effective swimmers. These long extinct "paddle saurians" propelled themselves through the oceans by employing "underwater flight"—similar to sea turtles and penguins.

A team of researchers studying a plesiosaur found at a dig site in Wyoming identified it as a long-necked marine reptile. In their paper published in the journal iScience, the group outlines their ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Between the later part of the Triassic and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in Australia — and its discovery could be groundbreaking. The Queensland Museum ...

Using CT scans based on X-rays, scientists were able to peek into the well-preserved remains of a plesiosaur and determine what it ate before it died. The ancient marine reptile, known endearingly as ...

"The fact that this guy had a body and head in the same animal is really important for us," said Dr. Espen Knutsen, senior curator of paleontology at the Queensland Museum Abigail Adams is a Human ...