The team was supported by volunteers with experience in excavating fossil marine reptiles, including members of the local ... It was an honour to lead the excavation and unearth this Jurassic giant ...

Palaeophis colossaeus, one of the largest known marine snakes of the Eocene, was a coastal predator whose fossils provide ...

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have determined that it is a giant, soft-shelled egg, most likely laid by a ...

Experts have identified the bones found on a beach in Somerset as belonging to the jaws of a new species of enormous ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile ... found the first chunk of ...

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery ... Plus, look out for the skeleton cast of the giant ground sloth, a land mammal ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

Tusoteuthis was a giant squid nearly equal in size to those ... Smaller cephalopods and fish were likely dietary staples, though small marine reptiles that visited the ocean depths may have ...

Philip Jacobs on the beach with the pliosaur snout. Image by Philip Jacobs I have been collecting the fossils of marine reptiles from the Kimmeridge clay for almost forty years. On the 5th April ...

There are also eight species of sea krait, Laticauda, a semi-aquatic group of reptiles that return to land to lay eggs ... collection jar at the Museum Fossil evidence of the ancient giant marine ...

and it could provide insight into the rapid extinction of one dominant giant marine reptile species. Scientists from the Western Australian Museum believe the discovery has “significance beyond ...