Find out what fossils have revealed about ichthyosaurs, which included the biggest marine reptile that ever lived.

The oldest fossils of an ichthyosaur ever found indicate that these fish-like reptiles evolved earlier than we thought – perhaps even before the world’s worst mass extinction, which hit 252 million ...

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. By Kate Golembiewski In 1811, a ...

WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - Ichthyosaurs were a successful group of marine reptiles that prospered during the age of dinosaurs, some reaching up to around 70 feet (21 meters) long - exceeded in ...

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.

An 8-foot-long skull discovered in the Augusta Mountains of Nevada is the largest fossil ever found from its time. The research team believes that the remarkable discovery could provide insight into ...

Imagine dolphins disappearing from the world's oceans as a result of prolonged climate change and slower evolution. As shocking and unlikely as such an event might be, it happened in the past to a ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a colossal marine reptile that may be the largest ever to have roamed Earth's oceans. The newly identified species, described in a study published in ...

Several huge, fossilized bones that have mystified paleontologists for years have been suggested to belong to an enormous species of ichthyosaur. The bones, discovered at several locations across ...

Scientists have described a giant new species of ichthyosaur that evolved its 55-foot-long body size only a few million years after the lizards returned to the seas. By Sabrina Imbler About 246 ...