The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is ...

A "very odd" sea creature fossil from Vancouver Island has been officially identified as a new species, Traskasaura sandrae.

Plesiosaur fossils have been known for decades in British Columbia. However, the identity of the animal that left the fossils ...

We're so used to seeing long-necked dinosaurs and other scaly creatures ... morsel that was an easy snack for hungry, meat-eating sea monsters, according to fresh fossil evidence scientists ...

Prehistoric long-necked sea creatures were vulnerable to decapitation by their predators, shows the first-ever direct fossil evidence recently unearthed by scientists. Paleontologists have long ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

The name Traskasaura honors the Trask family who found the original fossil, while sandrae is in memory of Sandra Lee O’Keefe, ...

Scientists for two centuries have suspected that prehistoric marine reptiles ... using its small head and long neck to ambush prey from the sea floor," Spiekman said. Its neck was composed of ...

Argentine palaeontologists have discovered the remains of a gigantic new species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaur in the ... fish and sea turtles. The Chucarosaurus' femur bone, which spanned ...

The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at the same time our favorite dinosaurs were roaming on land. Long-necked ...

Prehistoric long-necked sea creatures were vulnerable to decapitation by their predators, shows the first-ever direct fossil evidence recently unearthed by scientists. Paleontologists have long ...