During the dinosaur age, ichthyosaurs — large marine reptiles that look like dolphins — flourished in prehistoric oceans, living in all kinds of watery environments near and far from shore. But as ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 246 million years ago, a marine reptile roughly the length of ...

For 150 million years during the age of the dinosaurs, a group of dolphin-like reptiles called ichthyosaurs ruled the ocean – until everything started to go wrong. After multiplying into about 100 ...

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 ...

With their giant jaws and razor-blade teeth, the Temnodontosaurus was one of the largest of the ichthyosaurs. This predator grew up to 33 feet long and had the largest eyes known of any animal.

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 ...

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 ...

Ichthyosaurs -- shark-like marine reptiles from the time of dinosaurs -- were driven to extinction by intense climate change and their own failure to evolve quickly enough, according to new research ...

Life reconstruction of the large-sized Jurassic ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus. “The soft tissue preservation in this fossil is just one of these amazing discoveries that you stumble across once in a ...

From seals to whales, many marine animals have a thick layer of fat directly under their skin, known as blubber. Now, a new study has shown for the first time that ichthyosaurs – ancient marine ...

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 ...