Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-snouted ichthyosaur fossil found on England’s Jurassic Coast fills a missing chapter in marine reptile evolution. (CREDIT: ...
A skeleton discovered on Dorset’s Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. The dolphin-sized ichthyosaur, called Xiphodracon ...
A skeleton had been waiting for nearly half a century in the storage of a German museum without being analyzed. It was only recently that it caught the attention of researchers, leading to the ...
A year after the first Jurassic-era bone fragments were found in the Malone Mountains of West Texas, a new ancient discovery popped up in Celina. Steve Schliesing, a 61-year old mechanical engineer, ...
A reptile from the Middle Triassic had a spectacular crest made from feather-like structures, around 100 million years before the first feathered dinosaurs. Its remains comprise two fossils with the ...
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A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of marine reptiles in recent times. The almost complete skeleton of a ...