The seven-foot-long skull of an ancient pliosaur is on display in Dorset in the UK. The pliosaur has been described as a "sea rex" and the "ultimate killing machine." Scientists are now in a race ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of fossil hunters, led by collector Steve Etches, has uncovered what is thought to be the most complete Jurassic pliosaur skull ever found. Embedded high up on a cliff in Dorset, UK, Etches and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The earliest pliosaur 'megapredator' helped rule the oceans 170 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...