While dinosaurs ruled the land, the seas were long ago the territory of a mysterious aquatic monster more closely related to snakes and lizards. The prehistoric predator known as a pliosaur dominated ...

A giant skull of a prehistoric sea predator has been unearthed by a team of fossil hunters in the UK, the BBC reported. The more than 6-foot-long skull belongs to a pliosaur, a marine reptile that ...

The incredibly large skull of a pliosaur has been found on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England. Now, researchers are hoping the startling discovery will unlock hidden secrets of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German palaeontologists Eberhard Frey, left, and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck hold a spinal fragment from a pliosaur known as Liopleurodon ...

Rare crocodile find: An amateur fossil hunter discovered a fragment of the world's oldest marine crocodile in Lyme Regis, ...