Life reconstruction of the large-sized Jurassic ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus. “The soft tissue preservation in this fossil is just one of these amazing discoveries that you stumble across once in a ...

3D models of the nine ichthyosaurs analyzed by the researchers, shown in their evolutionary context. Credit: Gutarra et al., 2019) 3D models of the nine ichthyosaurs analyzed by the researchers, shown ...

During the era of the dinosaurs on land, a group of prehistoric marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs lived in the oceans. Find out what fossils have revealed about these animals, which included the ...

Millions of years ago, giant marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs were the dominant predators of the world's oceans. Researchers have now unearthed what may have been the largest of these creatures, an ...

Some ichthyosaurs are too old, and some ichthyosaurs are too young. But a new species of marine reptile is the perfect age - that is, for revealing one of the most mysterious periods in the ...

Several similar large, fossilized bone fragments have been discovered in various regions across Western and Central Europe since the 19th century. The animal group to which they belonged is still the ...

An artist's reconstruction of the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus (left), featured in the study, and researchers examining part of the creature's flipper at Sweden's Lund University (right).

Like modern whales, the Mesozoic marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs had land-living ancestors. In the case of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, these land-dwelling ancestors were probably ...

The 200-million-year-old fossilised remains of an ancient ichthyosaur, unearthed on a beach in south-west England, may be part of the largest marine reptile ever found. In 2020, amateur fossil hunters ...

Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of a jawbone that belonged to an ancient marine reptile — perhaps the largest ichthyosaur ever found. Millions of years ago, giant ...