Two ichthyosaur fossils were uncovered during the dig, including the vertebrae of one of the large marine reptiles. And what ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known remains of a giant ancient oceanic reptile, known as an ichthyosaur, on a remote Arctic island, offering new evidence of how the creature may have evolved.

Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard") were large marine reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs during most of the Mesozoic era. blickwinkel/Alamy Stock Photo Ichthyosaurs are a classic case of ...

For 150 million years during the age of the dinosaurs, a group of dolphin-like reptiles called ichthyosaurs ruled the ocean – until everything started to go wrong. After multiplying into about 100 ...

Maybe those fire-breathing scaly things that like to hoard gold in caves don’t exist, or at least Smaug doesn’t — but there is more than one type of dragon. The monstrous icthyosaur which emerged from ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the ...

Closeup of the stomach area of a fossil ichthyosaur, Guizhouichthyosaurus, showing part of the body of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur had swallowed its prey shortly before it died and ...

Autumn was closing in fast on Northern Nevada when Martin Sander took one last look around the excavation site in the Augusta Mountains. The longtime paleontologist from Germany had been working ...

The massive jawbone of a 205-million-year-old ichthyosaur has been discovered in southwestern England, making it "one of the largest animals to ever live" — it was nearly the size of a blue whale. The ...

An extraordinary fossil has blown the socks of palaeontologists as it was found to contain the soft tissues of a Temnodontosaurus ichthyosaur, marking the first time we’ve ever found soft tissue ...

Some 230 million years ago, massive dolphinlike reptiles called ichthyosaurs gathered to breed in safe waters — just like many modern whales do. “This is something we see in modern marine vertebrates ...