An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the ...

and is one of the world's most complete ichthyosaur fossils with intact embryos [Judith Pardo, Chilean Palaeontologist, Ichthyosaur Project Leader] “The ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that lived ...

Scientists revealed a newly discovered marine ichthyosaur species with gnarly teeth that was found in Colombia. The partial skull of an ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile, that looked like a ...

Learn about large extinct “fish lizards” known as ichthyosaurs with this excerpt from “Ancient Sea Reptiles.” Darren Naish Ichthyosaurs like this Jurassic Ophthalmosaurus had slender jaws and enormous ...

Bone worms (the red animals in this picture) were first discovered in the early 2000s, but these animals are believed to have evolved more than 100 million years ago. Adapted from Fujiwara et al. via ...

The excavation of the Rutland ichthyosaur was organised by Dr Dean Lomax (University of Manchester), Nigel Larkin (University of Reading) and Dr Mark Evans (British Antarctic Survey and University of ...

Some of the first ancient animals to be studied by scientists were the ichthyosaurs. Although bits and pieces had been found earlier, serious study of them goes back to 1811, when Joseph Anning ...

Jan. 13 -- A routine survey at a British nature reserve almost a year ago ended up turning up a prehistoric goldmine -- one that paleontologists now are calling an "unprecedented discovery." Last ...

Researchers have discovered a new marine reptile. The specimen, a stunningly preserved meter-long skull, is one of the last surviving ichthyosaurs -- ancient animals that look eerily like living ...

A team of international researchers announced the discovery of a marine reptile closely resembling a swordfish with a 3-foot-long skull that existed more than 100 million years ago. The preserved ...

Nature reserve workers performing routine maintenance of a lagoon made the "discovery of a lifetime" when they unearthed fossils of a "sea dragon," the largest of its kind ever found in the United ...