While dinosaurs ruled the land, the seas were long ago the territory of a mysterious aquatic monster more closely related to snakes and lizards. The prehistoric predator known as a pliosaur dominated ...

The oldest megapredatory pliosaur, Lorrainosaurus, in the ancient Middle Jurassic sea that covered what is to day northern France 170 million years ago. The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient ...

The skull of a colossal sea monster that was unearthed from the Jurassic Coast has gone on public display. The 2m-long fossil belongs to a pliosaur - one of the most fearsome predators the planet has ...

Palaeontologists say they are in a "race against time" to recover a huge prehistoric sea monster from eroding cliffs on the Jurassic Coast. The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from high ...

KIMMERIDGE, England - There was this thing on the beach. It looked like a tree trunk? But when they saw the fangs, the lethal grin of an apex predator, they knew. They had found a pliosaur, one of the ...

The pliosaur was a carnivorous reptilian apex predator that roamed and ruled the seas for millions of years during the Jurassic period. In late 2023, an extraordinary discovery along the rugged cliffs ...

London — The skull of an enormous ancient sea monster called a pliosaur has been pulled from cliffs on the U.K.'s southern Jurassic Coast. The pliosaur was a marine reptile that lived around 150 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3D model of Lorrainosaurus against a black background. 3D model of Lorrainosaurus on a black background. It has an alligator-like ...

The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur -- a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely ...