For 24 years, a nearly complete ichthyosaur skeleton gathered dust in a Canadian museum, overlooked amid thousands of fossils. Discovered in 2001 near Golden Cap on England's Jurassic Coast, it waited ...

A long-snouted ichthyosaur fossil found on England’s Jurassic Coast fills a missing chapter in marine reptile evolution. (CREDIT: Bob Nicholls / University of Manchester) A fossil found over two ...

Paleontologists have finally solved the mystery behind an elusive "sword dragon" skeleton found on the U.K.'s Jurassic Coast. In an Oct. 10 press release from the University of Manchester, officials ...

Ichthyosaurs represent a diverse clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles that rapidly adapted to fully aquatic lifestyles following the end-Permian mass extinction. Their streamlined, 'fish-like' body plan, ...

A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of marine reptiles in recent times. The almost complete skeleton of a ...