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 ...

The discovery of Ichthyotitan severnensis actually began almost eight years ago. Paul de la Salle, an avid amateur fossil collector ... therefore the largest marine reptile — ever described.

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 ...

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England, belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating back to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among ...

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.

Instead, the researchers found that the fossil was a more advanced aquatic predator, which indicates previous theories may have been wrong about the reptile's origins. The study proposes that the ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is known about its behavior, the “fascinating and long list of autapomorphic ...

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 ...