Paleontologists Discover a Rare 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Marine Reptile, Provide an Insight Into Its Evolution A great ...
Accidental discoveries happen all the time in science, but the biggest reptile ever was accidentally discovered by an 11-year-old kid.
A jawbone fossil found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a new species of marine reptile. However, new research suggests ...
Our collection contains many marine reptile specimens from the Lower Lias of the Dorset coast, including some discovered by Mary Anning. Large collections of Callovian (Middle Jurassic) marine ...
Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...
The study, published in Current Biology yesterday (August 10), provides evidence that some populations of the turtle-headed sea snake (Emydocephalus annulatus) are becoming dominated by more-uniformly ...
The ancient mosasaur, a giant marine lizard, was a formidable predator that thrived during the late Cretaceous period, approximately 100 to 66 million years ago. These colossal reptiles ...
Experts have identified the bones found on a beach in Somerset as belonging to the jaws of a new species of enormous ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile. Estimates suggest the oceanic ...
This contradicts what is seen in the slightly younger fossils of other marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, which show evolutionary links between South America, Antarctica and New ...