Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, a discovery ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

The Herpetology club is being reinstated on Truman’s campus after a several year absence. The club has been restarted by ...

GREAT BARRINGTON, MA — Simon’s Rock Associate Professor of Biology Sarah Snyder has been selected as the summer research ...