There was a time when sea monsters were real. Reptilian things with outsize necks slithered through the oceans, snapping up unfortunate prey in their jaws, though they had been long extinct by the ...

In a remarkable discovery in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur nicknamed “Fiona” were unearthed near the Tyndall Glacier, known to have been preserved for over ...

A giant skull of a prehistoric sea predator has been unearthed by a team of fossil hunters in the UK, the BBC reported. The more than 6-foot-long skull belongs to a pliosaur, a marine reptile that ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The remains of a new type of prehistoric 'sea dragon' have been discovered along the Dorset coast in southern Britain. The so-called Etches sea dragon, a novel ichthyosaur, was found ...

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 ...

A marine reptile called an ichthyosaur ripped into the nutritious torso of a slightly smaller marine reptile 240 million years ago, swallowed it and promptly died, according to a new study. The animal ...

The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at the same time our favorite dinosaurs were roaming on land. Long-necked ...

(CNN) — A marine reptile called an ichthyosaur ripped into the nutritious torso of a slightly smaller marine reptile 240 million years ago, swallowed it and promptly died, according to a new study.

LONDON — What began with routine maintenance at a British nature reserve and reservoir has been hailed as a giant Jurassic "mega-find." Officials at Anglian Water and the Leicestershire and Rutland ...

National Geographic’s new giant-screen film “Sea Monsters 3D: A Prehistoric Adventure”, the first release to premier simultaneously across all UK IMAX cinemas and selected specialty theatres on 20 ...

Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles during the time of the dinosaurs, and scientists don't know much about their ancestry. But by CT-scanning the fossil of one of the first ichthyosaurs, scientists ...