Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ...

Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.

Robert Clark, Academic Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Professor at Marshall University, says Traskasaura sandrae is from the elasmosaur family of plesiosaurs. They are some of the longest plesiosaurs ...

Fossilized remains have revealed a mysterious “sea monster” from 85 million years ago. The newly identified species of fierce marine reptile has been named Traskasaura sandrae. With its 39 feet ...

A year after the first Jurassic-era bone fragments were found in the Malone Mountains of West Texas, a new ancient discovery popped up in Celina. Steve Schliesing, a 61-year old mechanical engineer, ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Researchers from Marshall University in West Virginia have helped make a breakthrough in the world of paleontology. While working with an international investigative team ...

In the rolling hills of southwest Germany, there is a rock layer that has yielded some of the most spectacular marine fossils in the world. Known as the Posidonia Shale, this 183-million-year-old ...

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests ...