The vast expanse of Earth’s oceans has always been home to some of the most fascinating and formidable creatures. Among the giants that prowled the seas millions of years ago, there’s one predator ...

Plesiosaurs are a group of extinct marine reptiles that lived in the oceans while the dinosaurs lived on land. Find out what plesiosaur fossils have revealed about these animals and how big they could ...

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The pliosaurs were a group of marine reptiles that existed from the Late Triassic (around 228 million years ago) to the early Late Cretaceous (around 89 million years ago) and inhabited seas all over ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the prehistoric remains of Pliosaurus, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has published Is That Doris?, a children’s book that brings the fearsome Jurassic predator to ...

A fossil of a Pliosaurus, dubbed "Sea-Rex," found on Dorset's Jurassic Coast sets a Guinness record for completeness. With 95% of its surface area preserved, it boasts a formidable bite force ...

The pliosaur skull discovered in Dorset which featured on a BBC documentary has earned Guinness World Records title. The amazing pliosaur skull made famous by the documentary ‘Attenborough and the ...

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When dinosaurs ruled the land, a group of large marine reptiles called plesiosaurs ruled the seas. The pliosaurs were a part of this plesiosaur group. They measured up to 10 meters long (33 feet).

In this photograph, taken near Weymouth in southwest England, on the Jurassic Coast, I’m handling a 153-million-year-old Pliosaurus kevani vertebra. This is a large piece, but many of the fossils I ...

David Attenborough stands next to the recently discovered pliosaur fossil at the Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life in Kimmeridge, England. BBC Studios Fossil hunters have discovered one ...

The skull of a pliosaur, a colossal sea monster that terrorized the oceans about 150 million years ago has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset’s coast in England, the BBC reports. The 2m-long ...