An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...

An extraordinary fossil has blown the socks of palaeontologists as it was found to contain the soft tissues of a ...

The evolutionary quirks unveiled by the new research offer insight into how a subset of ichthyosaurs lived and hunted– and ...

Glaciers in Chile’s Patagonia region have been melting in recent years, exposing fossils underneath. Judith Pardo-Pérez, a ...

How were the Ichthyosaurus casts rediscovered?. Following the bombing of the Royal College of Surgeons, it was thought that this Ichthyosaurus specimen was lost to history.. But 75 years on, Dean and ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi ...

The first full ichthyosaur fossil was thought lost to the ravages of World War II. But researchers recently identified a copy, then more started to emerge. By Gemma Conroy In May 1941, the Royal ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around ...

Fossil collectors contributed to finding the jawbone of a giant ichthyosaur new to science that’s likely the largest known marine reptile to swim Earth’s seas. CNN values your feedback 1.

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.