These and many other types of ancient reptiles are often wrongly called dinosaurs. Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other ...

and it existed just before the marine reptiles and the dinosaurs went extinct," Dr Longrich said. Both the mosasaurs and dinosaurs became extinct towards the end of the Late Cretaceous period ...

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

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...

The team was supported by volunteers with experience in excavating fossil marine reptiles, including members of the local Peterborough Geological and Palaeontological Group. Often mistaken for ...

A new type of ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, has been identified by a Manchester palaeontologist from a fossil found in an old quarry in ...

Setting dinosaurs aside, here are four species ... molluscs and even other marine reptiles. As apex predators in their aquatic ecosystems, mosasaurs dominated the seas until their extinction ...