Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a giant pair of swimming Ichthyotitan severnensis, a marine reptile that paleontologists believe may have been ...

(Reuters) - Fossils from some of the largest creatures ever to swim Earth's oceans - whale-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs - have been found in a counterintuitive place: atop three mountains ...

The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists at the University of Bristol. Some of the most extraordinary ...

Did the first ancestors of whales pick up where the mosasaurs left off 66 million years ago, after the extinction of all the large predatory marine reptiles? A study has looked into the possible ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today. Subscribe to our ...

The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed. Some of the most extraordinary body transformations in evolution have occurred in animals that ...

When you think of the largest giant marine reptiles, you probably visualize the Mosasaurus, a massive, alligator-like creature that made a big splash (figuratively and literally) in "Jurassic World." ...

In a stunning paleontological find, a fossil of an ancient aquatic reptile with preserved skin has been found in Switzerland. The virtually complete fossil specimen belongs to Lariosaurus valceresii, ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

A team of paleontologists has discovered fossils of three impressive new ichthyosaurs—ancient marine reptiles—in rocks located 9,000 feet above sea level. The ichthyosaurs were found in excavations ...