A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey ...

A new marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, Traskasaura sandrae, had an unprecedented vertical hunting style.

The evolutionary quirks unveiled by the new research offer insight into how a subset of ichthyosaurs lived and hunted– and ...

Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...

A peculiar fossil egg, dubbed "The Thing," discovered decades ago in Antarctica, has been identified as belonging to a massive marine reptile from the dinosaur age. This soft-shelled egg, the first of ...

CT scans of Cretaceous fossils reveal seven ancient worm species that bored into marine bones and shaped deep-sea ecosystems.

A landowner in Argentina discovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric marine reptile, identified as an ichthyosaur, in the province of Neuquén.

Photograph of Drs Lomax and Lindgren, together with fellow researcher Sven Sachs, examining one part of the flipper at Lund ...

Serrations at the edges of a fossilized flipper of the ancient marine reptile Temnodontosaurussuggests it may have been able to swim silently.

Glaciers in Chile’s Patagonia region have been melting in recent years, exposing fossils underneath. Judith Pardo-Pérez, a ...