A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 ...

I was shocked when I saw skin cells that had been preserved for 183 million years,” explained Miguel Marx, a Ph.D. student at ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour.

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

This long-necked marine reptile lived around 85 million years ago. At 12 metres long, Traskasaura sandrae had strong, sharp ...

THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have discovered a massive bone belonging to a marine reptile that has been extinct for millions of years. The mosasaur vertebra, ...

A team of experts assert it’s the jawbone of an ancient mosasaur. Dissenters in Alberta say it’s too good to be true. Testing ...

The Flower Mound resident discovered the fossilized remains of a plesiosaur. The marine reptile would have swum ... The museum’s fossil prep team is in the process of carefully removing ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

The large marine reptile that was named British Columbia's official fossil emblem two years ago has been identified as both a ...