A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known remains of a giant ancient oceanic reptile, known as an ichthyosaur, on a remote Arctic island, offering new evidence of how the creature may have evolved.

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 ...

“We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

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

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi ...

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

The neck has 32 separate vertebrae — longer than the creature’s body and tail combined,” said a study published by Cambridge University Press, details that have left paleontologists stunned and amazed ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around ...