It's a find 65 million years in the making. A British man was walking his two dogs on the coasts near Stolford, Somerset on Saturday when he stumbled upon what is believed to be the fossilized remains ...

The late Triassic and early Jurassic were no time to go to the beach — especially when the seas were swarming with things that were all teeth. Ichthyosaur fossils don’t surface that often. After one ...

For its last meal, an ancient marine reptile called an ichthyosaur may have bitten off more than it could chew. The dolphinlike creature was nearly 5 meters long, about the length of a canoe. And its ...

Maybe those fire-breathing scaly things that like to hoard gold in caves don’t exist, or at least Smaug doesn’t — but there is more than one type of dragon. The monstrous icthyosaur which emerged from ...

Ichthyosaurus Communis is one of the first-known species of ichthyosaur to exist on Earth, and some U.K.-based paleontologists recently happened upon quite the fascinating fossil of one. Image Credit: ...

The stomach of a 15-foot fossil ichthyosaur excavated in China contained this massive chunk of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur swallowed its prey shortly before it died and was ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 246 million years ago, a marine reptile roughly the length of ...

The massive jawbone of a 205-million-year-old ichthyosaur has been discovered in southwestern England, making it "one of the largest animals to ever live" — it was nearly the size of a blue whale. The ...

The 205-million-year-old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to 'one of the largest animals ever' say a group of international paleontologists. The new discovery has also solved a 150-year-old ...

Palaeontologists have discovered the skeleton of an enormous 240 million year old reptile, which has the contents of its last meal – an almost equally massive sea creature – still visible in its ...

Paleontologists discovered Oda's remarkably intact fossilized skeleton in Svalbard in 2008. Engelschiøn et al. PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 Today, polar bears and reindeer roam the islands of Svalbard, a ...

A rare 200 million-year-old ichthyosaur specimen has been discovered in a private collection 22 years after it was originally found. The fossil is only the second example of Wahlisaurus massarae, a ...