The UK west Dorset coast is well known for its fossils. The so-called ‘Jurassic Coast’ has yielded numerous specimens 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 ...

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 ...

This provides new opportunities to understand reproduction in animals that have long been extinct,' says a researcher.

Closeup of the stomach area of a fossil ichthyosaur, Guizhouichthyosaurus, showing part of the body of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur had swallowed its prey shortly before it died and ...

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 ...

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

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. By Kate Golembiewski In 1811, 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 ...

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 ...

Some 240 million years ago, a dolphin-like ichthyosaur ripped to pieces and swallowed another marine reptile only a little smaller than itself. Then it almost immediately died and was fossilized, ...