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 ...

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 ...

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 ...