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A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Paleoartist Joschua Knüppe / CC BY-SA A newly discovered fossil may provide researchers with fresh insight into the ...

About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by sediments—a sequence of events that helped preserve not only her skeleton, but ...

The shoreline between Charmouth and Seatown in Dorset, United Kingdom, has come to be known as the “Jurassic Coast” of England. Geological formations have revealed prehistoric creatures stuck in the ...

Model of the ichthyosaur Eurhinosaurus longirostris, from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France), showing the different measurements used in the study. A team from the University of ...

Scientists in Germany have uncovered a remarkably preserved 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil that extends the known survival range of the Temnodontosaurus genus. Found in the Mistelgau clay pit ...