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 ...

New research from Morocco shows evidence of 12 different plesiosaurs found in a river region. This isn’t the first freshwater plesiosaur evidence, but it shows shared, regular eating behaviors. The ...

Researchers from the University of Bath, headed by Georgina Bunker, have found evidence that ancient plesiosaurs, previously thought to be marine animals, may have also evolved to live in freshwater.

It has been described as a snake threaded through the body of a turtle, and some imaginative people think there’s one living in Loch Ness. The plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived 160 million years ...