Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of the pliosaur, an ancient ambush predator twice the size of an orca. The fossilized remains of a "truly ...

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The gigantic skull of a predatory sea monster that preyed in the oceans millions of years ago has been excavated from a cliff in the United Kingdom in what scientists are saying is one of the most ...

The seven-foot-long skull of an ancient pliosaur is on display in Dorset in the UK. The pliosaur has been described as a "sea rex" and the "ultimate killing machine." Scientists are now in a race ...

Researchers have reconstructed a deadly Jurassic sea monster after excavating an enormous fossilized pliosaur skull from a U.K. cliff face. The discovery of the skull and subsequent reconstruction are ...

The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur -- a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: The discovery of the fossilized jaw and skull of a pliosaur, a giant prehistoric marine reptile, has set enthusiasts on fire. What might these new bones ...

AN ENORMOUS Jurassic pliosaur skull extracted from a cliff in Dorset, UK, is offering scientists a wealth of new information about these sea reptiles. “It’s very likely a new species,” says Judyth ...