Mollusks and other shelled sea animals were all fair game for dinner, and the ichthyosaur’s powerful jaws and robust teeth made short work of them. “We could infer from wear patterns on its ...

What's the difference between a pliosaur and a mosasaur? The pliosaur was not the only major sea monster roaming the ocean in prehistoric times. For fans of Jurassic Park, you may be more familiar ...

A sea monster was discovered on a beach in southern England — or its remains were. Fossil hunter Philip Jacobs found the snout of an ancient ocean predator called the pliosaur on a beach in ...

The skull of an ancient sea creature that was the "apex predator ... It belonged to a pliosaur, an extinct marine reptile that terrorized the oceans from the earliest Jurassic to early Late ...

The 2m-long pliosaur skull has been confirmed as the most complete ever found The skull of a prehistoric sea monster found on the Jurassic Coast has made it into the world record books.

Palaeontologists say they are in a "race against time" to recover a huge prehistoric sea monster from eroding cliffs on the Jurassic Coast. The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from ...

These sea monsters grew upwards of 40 feet (12 meters) long. About half that length was neck, a feature that allowed Styxosaurus to sneak up on schools of fish as it slowly cruised the shallow ...