"It took him a while but once he got going, he was moving at great speed," said one caregiver of Lou's swimming Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written ...

A team of researchers from the U.K. and Hungary has solved the mystery of how the dinosaur-era plesiosaurs were able to swim. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group ...

Plesiosaurs, who thrived during the early to middle Jurassic Period, used four paddlelike flippers of nearly equal size and musculature to swim. Despite the seemingly subpar engineering, the fossil ...

Thanks to modern mechanical prosthetics, complete with hydraulics and microprocessors, missing a limb needn't mean missing much. Except when it comes to swimming. Artificial appendages for the water ...

Among the stranger creatures to roam the earth during the time of the dinosaurs was not a dinosaur at all, but a marine reptile — the plesiosaur. This odd predator navigated Mesozoic Era waters with ...