In the mysterious world of the ocean’s depths, there’s a creature so bizarre that it looks like it swam straight out of a sci-fi movie. Meet the goblin shark — an ancient, rarely seen predator whose ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since paleontologists uncovered the first specimen more than two centuries ago. Their ...

The strange reptile — resembling a real-life Loch Ness Monster or a prehistoric crocodile crossed with a giraffe — was first described in 1852 and first reconstructed in 1973. Palaeontologists have ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...