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

Marshall University researchers identified a group of fossils that belonged to a new type of prehistoric aquatic reptile from ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

BRITISH COLUMBIA — Marshall University researchers identified a group of fossils that belonged to a new type of prehistoric aquatic reptile from millions of years ago that was unknown before the ...

Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking film, Jurassic Park, features many dinosaur species but notably excludes aquatic life for a ...

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals ...