Credit: Marx, et al. Paleontologists have previously examined fossilized soft tissues from other prehistoric marine reptiles, including ancient sea turtles and ichthyosaurs. With only around eight ...

SOME three-quarters of a century ago the late Sir Richard Owen directed attention to the very frequent occurrence in the flattened skeletons of ichthyosaurs from the Lias of Whitby and Lyme Regis ...

The Paja ecosystem was home to massive dolphin-like reptiles known as ichthyosaurs, crocodile-shaped beasts called teleosaurs, and long-necked pliosaurs, some more than 10 meters long. The potential ...

Dinosaurs may have first evolved close to the equator, not in the far south of the southern hemisphere as previously thought. A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a new study. The fossilised ...

The museum said the area will house the fossilised remains of an ichthyosaur, which was discovered during excavations of Caldecotte Lake. Bill Griffiths, the museum's director, said: "At a time ...

The ichthyosaur is a sea-dwelling reptile that was reportedly found during both the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. However, evidence of this creature has always been tied to the much older ...

The stamps to commemorate her findings show a near-complete Dapedium Politum fossil, a complete Ichthyosaurus Communis skeleton fossil, and a near-complete Plesiosaurus Macrocephalus fossil - all ...

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A rare 200 million-year-old ichthyosaur species has been discovered from a private collection, 22 years after it was originally found. Ichthyosaurs were a type of sea-going reptiles that lived during ...