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 ...

Blue whales have been considered the largest creatures to ever live on Earth. With a maximum length of nearly 30 meters and weighing nearly 200 tons, they are the all-time undisputed heavyweight ...

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 ...

The fossilized remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two meters long has been found on a beach in Somerset, UK. The fossilised remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more ...

An illustration of a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. The fossilized remains of this newly named ichthyosaur species was uncovered on a beach in England.

A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. The new species is dubbed Ichthyotitan severnensis ...

Paul Scofield receives funding from Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund and the R.S. Allan Fund of Canterbury Museum. George Young received funding from the UC Masters scholarship. Vanesa De ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the enduring mysteries of paleontology, the demise of a highly successful group of dolphin-like marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs that flourished in Earth's seas for ...

The fossilised remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres long has been found on a beach in Somerset, UK. Experts have identified the bones as belonging to the jaws of a new ...