This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million ... At the top of the food chain were the long-necked and paddle-finned plesiosaurs, giant marine crocodiles, sharks, and rays.

The ancient world was a bizarre place ... Among them was the fearsome plesiosaur, a marine reptile with a long neck and four large flippers that ruled the ancient seas. However, their unique ...

The couple have loaned the 70%-complete skeleton to the heritage centre, which said it was one of only a few three-dimensional Lower Jurassic plesiosaur specimens in the world.

Based on Michael Crichton's novels, the Jurassic Park series explores a world where dinosaurs can ... through an underwater ...

May holds a portion of a plesiosaur vertebra. Boucher holds a piece of fossilized wood. Both May and Boucher are authors on a recent paper on the first Jurassic vertebrates found and described in ...

Large collections of Callovian (Middle Jurassic) marine reptiles from Cambridgeshire brick pits were purchased from Alfred Leeds in 1890 and 1914. These include many type and figured skeletons of ...