Find out what fossils have revealed about ichthyosaurs, which included the biggest marine reptile that ever lived.

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 ...

3D models of the nine ichthyosaurs analyzed by the researchers, shown in their evolutionary context. Credit: Gutarra et al., 2019) 3D models of the nine ichthyosaurs analyzed by the researchers, shown ...

Some ichthyosaurs are too old, and some ichthyosaurs are too young. But a new species of marine reptile is the perfect age - that is, for revealing one of the most mysterious periods in the ...

Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of a jawbone that belonged to an ancient marine reptile — perhaps the largest ichthyosaur ever found. Millions of years ago, giant ...

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 ...

An extraordinary fossil has blown the socks of palaeontologists as it was found to contain the soft tissues of a Temnodontosaurus ichthyosaur, marking the first time we’ve ever found soft tissue ...

Like modern whales, the Mesozoic marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs had land-living ancestors. In the case of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, these land-dwelling ancestors were probably ...

An artist's reconstruction of the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus (left), featured in the study, and researchers examining part of the creature's flipper at Sweden's Lund University (right).

This provides new opportunities to understand reproduction in animals that have long been extinct,' says a researcher.

Millions of years ago, giant marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs were the dominant predators of the world's oceans. Researchers have now unearthed what may have been the largest of these creatures, an ...