Scientists Stunned After Finding Fossil of Giant ‘Sea Dragon’ Protruding From Mississippi Stream Bed Be it scientists or ...

And back in 2020, when she was 11 years old, Ruby came across the fossil of an ichthyosaur that experts now believe could be the largest marine reptile of all time. Researchers who studied the ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first discovered the fossil in 2009, told Live Science, adding that she plans to ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

With assistance from the Neuquén Cultural Heritage Directorate, members of Squadron 31 in Las Lajas worked to safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur ...

The ichthyosaur was preserved in exquisite detail, and included the approximately 6-inch-long (15 centimeters) skeleton of an unborn fetus, the researchers initially reported. The fossil was first ...

As if frozen in mid-swim, an Ichthyosaurus fossil lends a Jurassic-era touch to Stefano Piccini’s home office in Italy. A paleontologist, geologist, and owner of Geoworld—a commercial fossil ...

Findings published today in the journal Current Biology examine a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many ...

Male scientists - who frequently bought the fossils Mary would uncover, clean, prepare and identify - often did not credit her discoveries in their scientific papers on the finds, even when writing ...

Lead author Judith Pardo-Pérez (left) with co-author Matt Malkowski in in Patagonia’s Torres del Paine National Park, where the ichthyosaur fossil was discovered. Credit: Matt Malkowski.

Fossils are the imprinted remains of ancient ... including a dolphin-like marine reptile called an ichthyosaur, a long necked reptile called a plesiosaur, a flying reptile and many other ancient ...