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 ...

Mississippi State University researchers have uncovered a large mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, potentially the largest of ...

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 ...

Mary Anning's brother Joseph found the skull in 1810 and Mary found parts of ... The collection also contains other important marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias of Dorset, in the UK, ...

The ancient marine reptile was later named Plotosourus bennisoni in Bennison’s honor. ”Most paleontological finds are done by amateur fossil hunters and even just regular people,” said Michael ...