While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

Researchers Uncover Fossils of 150-Million-Year-Old Pliosaurs From the Jurassic Period, Helped Them to Conceptualize the Food Chain Researchers have uncovered the remains of one of the largest marine ...

A team of fossil hunters, led by collector Steve Etches, has uncovered what is thought to be the most complete Jurassic pliosaur skull ever found. Embedded high up on a cliff in Dorset ...

It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago. The 2m (6ft 5in)-long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever ...

40 years after their discovery in Lorraine (northeastern France), the fossils of a 170-million-year-old pliosaur have been analyzed by a collaboration of paleontologists from Naturkunde-Museum ...

The process of scanning the pliosaur skull was similar to scanning one of the usual giant dinosaur skulls. Generally, I scan different areas of the skull as different files due to large file sizes ...

Making a CGI (computer-generated imagery) pliosaur is a slow and expensive process, but making a digital ocean for it to swim in is also difficult and time consuming. We needed to film back plates ...

Due to decades of global warming, a primaeval blood-thirsty cross between a crocodile and a pliosaur emerges from the depths of an ancient Arctic glacier. As a result, the ferocious apex predator ...