A team of fossil hunters, led by collector Steve Etches, has uncovered what is thought to be the most complete Jurassic pliosaur skull ever found. Embedded high up on a cliff in Dorset ...

Unlike these more famous relatives, pliosaurs have short necks and huge skulls. First appearing over 200 million years ago, they were minor players in the marine ecosystem before suddenly becoming ...

I was quite pleased with my day: I found some pliosaur, plesiosaur and ichthyosaur ... including a number of jaw and skull sections. Also there were no other creatures of that size in the Jurassic ...

I went to Kimmeridge on a sunny day in May to surface scan the pliosaur skull discovered by Steve Etches and his crew. A significant portion of my PhD work involved using a portable surface ...

A massive fossil skull, retrieved from a cliff near Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset, UK, has stunned paleontologists and dinosaur ...