Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile - in the western state of Gujarat. This is the first time an ichthyosaur fossil has ...

The ichthyosaur fossil has a total length of just around 70 cm and had the remains of a prehistoric squid in its stomach. Ichthyosaurus communis was the first species of ichthyosaur, a group of ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

The 33ft (10m) long ichthyosaur fossil, which is about 180 million years old, was found at Rutland Water Nature Reserve. Similar in shape to dolphins, the reptiles - known as sea dragons - varied ...

A rare 200 million-year-old ichthyosaur specimen has been discovered in a private collection 22 years after it was originally found. The fossil is only the second example of Wahlisaurus massarae, a ...

Unless by some super-rare fluke, the fossilized skeleton of an ichthyosaur shows up exceptionally well-preserved, it's often hard for paleontologists to tell where the fragmented fossils came from.

While the coastlines of Yorkshire and Dorset are best known for producing evidence of ichthyosaurs and the dinosaurs that ...

Fossil-bearing rocks on Spitsbergen that produce the earliest ichthyosaur remains. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

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 ...

of the ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis from Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada. These new fossils demonstrate that Shonisaurus was an apex predator at the top of its ecosystem. Credit must be ...

It's an ichthyosaur, the largest and most-complete specimen of this type of creature ever found in Alaska.