Paleontology often relies on superlatives to entice the public. Fossil species are touted as being the biggest, oldest, strongest, weirdest, or whatever other –est applies if the designation will help ...

Back in 2009 we told you about Predator X, a gigantic pliosaur whose fossilized remains were found in the Arctic. Now, after years of research, paleontologists have officially inducted the ...

It's official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) ...

Pliosaurus also had an arthritis problem, according to a new study. Bristol University scientists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur. They ...

Paleontologists at the Polish Academy of Sciences have found the partial remains of a 150 million-year-old sea monster—formally known as a pliosaurus—in a cornfield. The discovery was made near the ...

there aren’t many folk who share their name with a prehistoric monster… But this ancient sea beast has been called Pliosaurus Kevani – in honour of Kevan Sheehan, the fossil hunter who found it. The ...

Palaeontology often relies on superlatives to entice the public. Fossil species are touted as being the biggest, oldest, strongest, weirdest, or whatever other -est applies if the designation will ...

When I was a fossil-crazed tyke, I used to spend hours flipping through a set of LIFE Young Readers Nature Library books my parents had purchased. The multicolored collection was one of my earliest ...

From the land of Nowhere comes Jason Bohn/ He talks too much because his mind is gone/ He sports a couple really lame tattoos/ And the most used button on his alarm is "snooze." (With apologies to ...

It's official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet and had a ...

It's official: A giant marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) ...