A 183-million-year-old fossil with exceptionally well-preserved soft tissues has revealed that some plesiosaurs were covered ...

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

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

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

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

In a new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens ... is not directly used to study live humans or animals ...

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

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

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Medical imaging has come a long way in the past 50 years. No longer is an X-ray the only tool used to see inside the body: now we have CT ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

Scientists examined a fossilized plesiosaur’s soft tissue, revealing a unique mix of smooth and scaly skin. Smooth skin ...