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

Fossils including sharks' teeth from the dinosaur age have been uncovered during ground investigations for East West Rail.

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 ...

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

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

The fossil was found in an area that was once underwater ... This is bigger than most dinosaurs walking around on land." Mosasaurs were marine reptiles; lizards that adapted to swimming and living in ...

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 ...

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