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A new ichthyosaur species, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, or 'sword dragon,' has been unearthed on the UK's Jurassic Coast. This nearly complete fossil from 185 million years ago offers vital clues about ...

The discovery of a hatchling turtle and bird in the gut of a 100 million-year-old Australian fossil has turned the theory behind the extinction of the a dolphin-like ichthyosaur on its head. Dr ...

The shoreline between Charmouth and Seatown in Dorset, United Kingdom, has come to be known as the “Jurassic Coast” of England. Geological formations have revealed prehistoric creatures stuck in the ...

Sometimes fossils are not what they seem. That is especially true of ones that have been in museums for a long time. A recently reported bit of research by a team of three scientists, from England, ...

Paleontologists discovered Oda's remarkably intact fossilized skeleton in Svalbard in 2008. Engelschiøn et al. PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 Today, polar bears and reindeer roam the islands of Svalbard, a ...

An explanation presented this week for a famed and enigmatic jumble of marine reptile fossils has blurred the lines between science and science fiction. The latest proposal suggests that the jumbled ...

PART of a skeleton discovered in North Yorkshire belonged to an 180 million-year-old pregnant ichthyosaur with the remains of between six and eight tiny embryos between its ribs, a new study has ...

This article is more than 1 year old. Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of jawbone that belonged to an ichthyosaur, an ancient marine reptile. This particular ...

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Scientists have discovered a new marine reptile that lived 130 million years ago in South America. The reptile, an Ichthyosaur - which means 'fish lizard' in Greek - is believed to have swam in ...