A giant skull of a prehistoric sea predator has been unearthed by a team of fossil hunters in the UK, the BBC reported. The more than 6-foot-long skull belongs to a pliosaur, a marine reptile that ...

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 ...

3D model of Lorrainosaurus on a black background. It has an alligator-like head and a closed mouth with lots of teeth poking out. A newfound member of a "dynasty" of pliosaur megapredators was at the ...

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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 ...

Good morning. I'm Leila Fadel. Pliosaurs roamed Earth's oceans around 150 million years ago. A scientist spotted the skull of one during a walk on England's Jurassic Coast. He spent months trying to ...

Finding complete fossils of dinosaurs and amphibians is a difficult task, with museums and universities spending millions of dollars to reconstruct and acquire these ancient specimens. One of the more ...

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While the land was dominated by dinosaurs, the oceans were the realm of pliosaurs. These giant carnivores were some of the top predators in the seas some 130 million years ago, and now a new massive ...

Norwegian scientists have today announced that a 150 million-year-old fossilised pliosaur found on Spitspergen, an Arctic island, is the largest marine reptile known to science. The specimen, ...

A scientist uncovered a huge Pliosaur on the coast of England. After months trying to extract it, a 6.5 foot long Pliosaur skull was recovered. The "T. Rex of the sea" could kill a human in one bite.