A huge skeleton from the Jurassic era of a ‘sea monster’ called Elasmosaurus has been installed as part of the university’s natural history collections. The cast skeleton is 13 metres long ...

The neck of Elasmosaurus has 72 vertebrae ... The final evolutionary radiation of sea monsters had begun and competition was fierce. “Mosasaurs were getting into vicious fights with one another ...

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the mystery behind a "very odd" long-necked sea monster found on the coast ... The bizarre elasmosaurus is actually one of North America's most famous fossils ...

From a sea monster's head being on the wrong end of its body to thinking pterosaurs were flying marsupials, here are 10 creatures from the dinosaur age that looked way different than scientists ...

You may like Giant 85 million-year-old mystery sea monster fossil finally identified ... were particularly interested in the necks of Elasmosaurus individuals — which in some cases measured ...

May 22 (UPI) --A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of years ago, a newly published study announced. The newly ...

"Some Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs [100 million to 66 million years ago] such as Elasmosaurus even had 72 ... fishes and other sea creatures. "They had originated right after the extinction ...

But the sea was teeming with life forms ... Also common in the Cretaceous was the largest of the long-necked plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus. This 15-metre-long plesiosaur used the length of its ...

An ancient serpentine sea monster, measuring more than 23 feet ... An artist's impression of an Elasmosaurus, another species of plesiosaur. Scientists have identified more than 100 species.