Long before whales ruled the oceans, ancient bone-eating worms were already thriving on the seafloor, feasting on the ...

In a discovery that would make Mary Anning proud, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds stumbled upon what would turn out to be the biggest marine reptile fossil ever found while casually strolling along a ...

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China have unearthed fossils of *Dinocephalosaurus orientalis*, a 240-million-year-old marine ...

Now, scientists claim a breakthrough has been made due to the discovery of a stunning pregnant sea reptile fossil deep in the icy wilds of Patagonia. The fossil, since dubbed Fiona, sheds new light on ...

Glaciers in Chile’s Patagonia region have been melting in recent years, exposing fossils underneath. Judith Pardo-Pérez, a ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

A landowner in Argentina discovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric marine reptile, identified as an ichthyosaur, in the province of Neuquén.

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.