A captain has claimed he found the Loch Ness monster using the sonar system on his boat. Shaun Sloggie, 30, was preparing his ...

This painting by Sir Peter Scott, a respected British naturalist, helped create the popular image of Nessie as an ancient reptile called a plesiosaur. Almost immediately, however, critics began to ...

The fossilised skeleton of a plesiosaur discovered on the Jurassic Coast has sold at auction for more than £90,000. The fossil of the extinct marine reptile, found at Lyme Regis, Dorset ...

This plesiosaur apparently died before completely spitting up the pellet, they said. Modern-day eagles, hawks and owls, as well as alligators and snakes, are known to produce pellets.

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Skipper Shaun Sloggie said the "chilling" image flashed up on the boat's sonar at a depth of around 98 metres.

An artist’s interpretation of a Jurassic plesiosaur. Fossils from a plesiosaur discovered in West Texas are the only fossils from a Jurassic vertebrate found and described in the state.

We have some complete skeletons, so we know about its anatomy, but in many respects it is a mystery. 'This animal belongs to the plesiosaur order - carnivorous reptiles that lived in seas and lagoons.

The discovery of plesiosaur fossils on an ancient African riverbed suggest a 'monster' could have lived in freshwater Loch Ness, say scientists. Fossils of the prehistoric reptile were found in a ...

It was found near the site where a plesiosaur fossil was unearthed in 2004, the board of education announced on Aug. 26. A research team said the two fossilized species are some of the oldest in ...

Shaun Sloggie, 30, said he's "never seen anything like" the discovery, which appears to have the same shape as the eel-like ...

The outline, which was detected nearly 100 metres beneath the surface of the Highland loch, bears an eerie resemblance to a plesiosaur, which many have speculated could be the reptile group the ...