Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas is chipping away at the fossilized remains of the prehistoric marine reptile.

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic ...

This primitive, 85-million-year-old marine reptile was a fierce predator, measuring 12 meters in length. Unlike any known ...

A strange, long-necked marine predator from the age of dinosaurs has finally received its name, after more than 20 years of study. What started as a puzzle of ancient bones collected along the ...

The marine reptile, which could grow to around 39 feet (12 meters ... was formally described by scientists in 2002 and dates ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is ...

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery ... safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur—a marine reptile that lived during ...

A "very odd" sea creature fossil from Vancouver Island has been officially identified as a new species, Traskasaura sandrae.

The elasmosaurids were a genus of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the United States. These were large marine reptiles known for their exceptionally long necks.

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed earlier than expected ...