An unexpected discovery in Antarctica is challenging long-standing scientific assumptions. A massive egg fossil, recently ...

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery ... safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur—a marine reptile that lived during ...

Mississippi State University researchers have uncovered a large mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, potentially the largest of ...

The marine predator fossils represent one of the most complete plesiosaur specimens in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science ...

Geologists discovered a fossilised single vertebra of the giant sea lizard known as a mosasaur that lived during the late ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Long before neighborhoods sprawled across North Texas, ancient seas teemed with formidable marine reptiles. One of those long ...

The ancient marine reptile was later named Plotosourus bennisoni in Bennison’s honor. ”Most paleontological finds are done by amateur fossil hunters and even just regular people,” said Michael George, ...

The ancient fossil was discovered in Guizhou province ... which is shocking because it is more than any known marine reptile. Researchers during their hypothesis concluded that its flexible ...

Leard and Palmer are experienced scientists pursuing their doctoral degrees in earth and atmospheric sciences at MSU while continuing full-time work in the field. They plan to complete their degrees ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...