An unexpected discovery in Antarctica is challenging long-standing scientific assumptions. A massive egg fossil, recently ...

The marine predator fossils represent one of the most complete plesiosaur specimens in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science ...

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 ...

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

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

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 living in ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Leard and Palmer are experienced scientists pursuing their doctoral degrees in earth and atmospheric sciences at MSU while ...

Long before neighborhoods sprawled across North Texas, ancient seas teemed with formidable marine reptiles. One of those long ...

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 George, ...