Can you get organic compounds in a fossilized bone? There was a time we thought not, but a new study that used a novel ...

The extremely well-preserved ammonite - believed to be between 100 to 105 million years-old - has been discovered on the Isle ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously ...