A year after the first Jurassic-era bone fragments were found in the Malone Mountains of West Texas, a new ancient discovery ...

And back in 2020, when she was 11 years old, Ruby came across the fossil of an ichthyosaur that experts now believe could be the largest marine reptile ... as we had never found a piece of ...

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 creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

The fossil was found in an area that was once underwater ... This is bigger than most dinosaurs walking around on land." Mosasaurs were marine reptiles; lizards that adapted to swimming and ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Amateur palaeontologists have found the ... the origin of reptiles and other land-based creatures by 40 million years. Builder Craig Eury and winemaker John Eason were fossil hunting near ...

The ancient marine reptile was later named Plotosourus bennisoni ... lead paleontologist at the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County in Chowchilla. “It’s because of people’s interest ...