Researchers have formally identified a group of elasmosaur fossils - some of the most famous in North America. The marine ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour.

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was ...

A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

This long-necked marine reptile lived around 85 million years ago. At 12 metres long, Traskasaura sandrae had strong, sharp ...

The previously unnamed species of elasmosaur is being called Traskasaura sandrae in honour of Mike Trask, who in 1988 ...

The large marine reptile that was named British Columbia's official fossil emblem two years ago has been identified as both a ...

A team of experts assert it’s the jawbone of an ancient mosasaur. Dissenters in Alberta say it’s too good to be true. Testing ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

The footprints they discovered back ... Not only is the fossil the earliest-known amniote, but Professor Long believes it may be evidence of the earliest-known reptile. "It's almost certain ...