Also called “Satsuma-Utsunomiyaryu,” the fossilized plesiosaur was found in a 100-million-year-old stratum from the Cretaceous Period by Utsunomiya, a Panasonic Corp. employee, in 2004.

Plesiosaurs were a diverse group of marine reptiles that thrived during the Mesozoic era, particularly in the Cretaceous period. They are characterized by their unique body shapes, which typically ...

Among them was the fearsome plesiosaur, a marine reptile with a long neck and four large flippers that ruled the ancient seas ...

Experts spent 16 years working to extract and restore the 3.2m-long (10.5ft) plesiosaur skeleton. It has been nicknamed Raffle after Tracey Barclay's dog who first spotted the vertebrae in rocks ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists say that fossils of small plesiosaurs may prove that the Loch Ness monster ...

It was found near the site where a plesiosaur fossil was unearthed in 2004, the board of education announced on Aug. 26. A research team said the two fossilized species are some of the oldest in ...