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 ...

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 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.

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.

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour.

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 ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is known about its behavior, the “fascinating and long list of autapomorphic ...