Maybe those fire-breathing scaly things that like to hoard gold in caves don’t exist, or at least Smaug doesn’t — but there is more than one type of dragon. The monstrous icthyosaur which emerged from ...

Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard") were large marine reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs during most of the Mesozoic era. blickwinkel/Alamy Stock Photo Ichthyosaurs are a classic case of ...

Marine reptiles that cruised the planet's oceans millions of years ago may have suffered from their own version of the bends, studies of their fossils suggest. But scientists are in disagreement over ...

A walk along the Somerset coastline in southwest England led to the discovery of one of the largest marine reptiles ever ...

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The massive jawbone of a 205-million-year-old ichthyosaur has been discovered in southwestern England, making it "one of the largest animals to ever live" — it was nearly the size of a blue whale. The ...

Cartorhynchus as it may have looked in life. The amphibious reptile is the oldest known representative of the ichthyosaurs, dolphin-like marine reptiles that entered the oceans after the Permian mass ...

Using computer simulations and 3D models, paleontologists have uncovered more detail on how Mesozoic sea dragons swam. Using computer simulations and 3D models, palaeontologists from the University of ...

It's a find 65 million years in the making. A British man was walking his two dogs on the coasts near Stolford, Somerset on Saturday when he stumbled upon what is believed to be the fossilized remains ...

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 ...

Using computer simulations and 3D models, palaeontologists from the University of Bristol have uncovered more detail on how Mesozoic sea dragons swam. The research, published today in the journal ...