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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a giant pair of swimming Ichthyotitan severnensis, a marine reptile that paleontologists believe may have been ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

Imagine dolphins disappearing from the world's oceans as a result of prolonged climate change and slower evolution. As shocking and unlikely as such an event might be, it happened in the past to a ...

A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of marine reptiles in recent times. The almost complete skeleton of a ...

A remarkable new species of ichthyosaur, dubbed Xiphodracon goldencapensis, or the “sword dragon of Dorset,” has been identified from a nearly complete fossil found along the UK’s Jurassic Coast. This ...