Scientists working on the Arctic archipelago’s largest island, Spitsbergen, uncovered a 249-million-year-old bonebed on the side of Mount Marmier. They estimate that it contains more than 30,000 ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, ...

Ichthyosaurs represent a diverse clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles that rapidly adapted to fully aquatic lifestyles following the end-Permian mass extinction. Their streamlined, 'fish-like' body plan, ...

Arctic fossils reveal the oldest known oceanic reptile ecosystem from the Age of Dinosaurs. Over 30,000 specimens show marine ...

British paleontologists recently identified Xiphodragon goldencapensis, a new ichthyosaur species. The skeleton was found on ...

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery of fossilized remains Authorities confirmed the find as an ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile Crews worked with cultural ...

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A fossil unearthed along the coast of England was identified as a new species of a renowned “sword dragon” reptile that dominated the sea during the Jurassic Period. The nearly complete ichthyosaur ...

An international research team from Switzerland and Germany, led by Gaël Spicher (JURASSICA Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland), has described a new ichthyosaur species based on fossils curated at the ...