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 ...

In the dark seas of the ancient world, few creatures were as interesting as the plesiosaur: a long-necked marine reptile with four large flippers. These fearsome predators dominated the oceans in the ...

When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks - some of which were up to 7 metres long - plesiosaurs have remained an evolutionary mystery for ...

Plesiosaurs, which lived about 210 million years ago, adapted to life underwater in a unique way: their front and hind legs evolved in the course of evolution to form four uniform, wing-like flippers.

Calvert Marine Museum’s paleontologist, Stephen Godfrey, co-authored a just-released study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology called “Cranial Anatomy of Morturneria seymourensis from Antarctica ...

The majestic plesiosaur swam through shallow seas millions of years ago, eating fish like a dinosaur-era Loch Ness monster. A scientific debate over how plesiosaurs swim has been raging since the ...

How prehistoric aquatic reptiles known as plesiosaurs utilized their four large flippers to swim through the ocean has long been the subject of debate in the scientific community. Now, a team of ...

When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks -- some of which were up to 7 meters long -- plesiosaurs have remained an evolutionary mystery for ...