For its last meal, an ancient marine reptile called an ichthyosaur may have bitten off more than it could chew. The dolphinlike creature was nearly 5 meters long, about the length of a canoe. And its ...

For 24 years, a nearly complete ichthyosaur skeleton gathered dust in a Canadian museum, overlooked amid thousands of fossils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late Triassic and early Jurassic were no time to go to the beach — especially when the seas were swarming with things that ...

It's a find 65 million years in the making. A British man was walking his two dogs on the coasts near Stolford, Somerset on Saturday when he stumbled upon what is believed to be the fossilized remains ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among Jurassic marine reptiles. A nearly complete skeleton discovered along the UK ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China recently discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur. But they also found something completely unexpected — a ...

The stomach of a 15-foot fossil ichthyosaur excavated in China contained this massive chunk of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur swallowed its prey shortly before it died and was ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 246 million years ago, a marine reptile roughly the length of ...

Did this fossil just sit on a shelf for 24 years?

A CT scan of an ancient marine reptile that was entombed while pregnant has revealed a huge surprise — there were two fetuses inside her fossilized remains. "Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo ...

Paleontologists discovered Oda's remarkably intact fossilized skeleton in Svalbard in 2008. Engelschiøn et al. PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 Today, polar bears and reindeer roam the islands of Svalbard, a ...