Articles for tag: Dinosaur Age, Elasmosaurus, Fossil Discovery, Prehistoric Marine, Sea Monsters

Is This the Weirdest Sea Monster Ever Discovered? Meet the Real-Life Cretaceous Oddity

Jan Otte

For nearly four decades, a set of enigmatic fossils from British Columbia puzzled scientists so much so that they became the province’s official fossil emblem before anyone could definitively identify them. Now, after years of debate, paleontologists have finally unveiled the creature behind the mystery: Traskasaura sandrae, a bizarre 12-meter-long elasmosaurus with a Frankensteinian mix ...