In a discovery that would make Mary Anning proud, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds stumbled upon what would turn out to be the biggest marine reptile fossil ever found while casually strolling along a ...

The discovery of Ichthyotitan severnensis actually began almost eight years ago. Paul de la Salle, an avid amateur fossil collector ... therefore the largest marine reptile — ever described.

In a recent discovery, an international research team uncovered the oldest known fossil of a marine reptile in the Southern Hemisphere. The fossil, a nothosaur vertebra, was found in New Zealand ...

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England, belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating back to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

April 17 (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to ...

Paleontologists already know that the extinct marine reptile ichthyosaurs ... Their remains have been found in parts of Asia, North America, and Europe. A fossil deposit in present day Nevada ...

Scientists have discovered a 246 million-year-old marine reptile fossil, the oldest of its kind to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, shining a new light on the early evolution of marine mammals.

Instead, the researchers found that the fossil was a more advanced aquatic predator, which indicates previous theories may have been wrong about the reptile's origins. The study proposes that the ...

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery ... safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur—a marine reptile that lived during ...