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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ichthyosaurs swam the world's oceans at the same time that dinosaurs ruled the land. A fossil of the dolphin-like seagoing reptile ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nearly complete fossil skeleton found on the U.K.'s Jurassic Coast represents a newly identified species of ancient marine ...

Archaeologists began digging along the route of the road in 2023 Before an inch of Melton Mowbray's new bypass was laid, archaeologists were sent in to dig below its 4.4-mile (7.1km) route round the ...

In recent years, Mary Anning has become known for the important paleontological work she did during her lifetime (1799-1847). She has been called an unsung hero in paleontology for the discoveries she ...