(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.

In England, the “sword dragon” is discovered, a new species of Jurassic ichthyosaur that reveals clues about marine evolution ...

Blue whales have been considered the largest creatures to ever live on Earth. With a maximum length of nearly 30 meters and weighing nearly 200 tons, they are the all-time undisputed heavyweight ...

Move over, professional paleontologists - the next generation of fossil hunters has arrived! In a discovery that would make Mary Anning proud, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds stumbled upon what would turn ...

An 11-year-old girl on a fossil hunt with her father uncovered a chunk of jawbone, leading paleontologists to later identify the bones as belonging to a previously unknown titan of the prehistoric ...

How can we guess the size of an extinct animal when all that remains are a few scattered bones? A study conducted by researchers at ULiège now provides an answer to this question. Using mathematical ...

(CNN) — A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known marine reptile ...

The newly discovered species, Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis, grew to around 5 feet long and was covered in bony scales called osteoderms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Model of the ichthyosaur Eurhinosaurus longirostris, from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France), showing the different measurements used in the study. A team from the University of ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. Instead of the site of a massive die-off as suspected, it might have been an ...

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were ...