But when they saw the fangs, the lethal grin of an apex predator, they knew. They had found a pliosaur, one of the rarest of the rare, and the most fearsome marine reptile that ever lived — the ...

It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago. The 2m (6ft 5in)-long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever ...

Making a CGI (computer-generated imagery) pliosaur is a slow and expensive process, but making a digital ocean for it to swim in is also difficult and time consuming. We needed to film back plates ...

Philip Jacobs on the beach with the pliosaur snout. Image by Philip Jacobs I have been collecting the fossils of marine reptiles from the Kimmeridge clay for almost forty years. On the 5th April ...

The show documents the excavation of a giant pliosaur on an island in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago. The special follows Dr. Jørn Hurum and a team of paleontologists from the University of ...