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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A bizarre sea creature which hunted prey more than 500 million years ago had three eyes, and another unusual feature. Fossils containing Mosura fentoni were recently discovered in Canada and were ...

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.

In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for ...

It would be easy to imagine the cartographer invented them on the spot,” says Chet Van Duzer, cartographic historian and author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. Magnus’s map ...

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 ...