and fossils of sabre-tooth predators have been found in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Read more Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator The teeth are first ...

The new discovery is from a time known as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, right after a world-wide mass extinction. For these reasons, the team have been unable to determine exactly whether the ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other ...

The findings, published today in the journal Current Biology, examine a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50 ...

Dean added: “One of the Aust bones might also be an ichthyosaur surangular. If it is, by comparison with the Lilstock specimen, it might represent a much larger animal. To verify these findings, we ...

The research also indicates that toothed and toothless species of ichthyosaur may have coexisted at the same time throughout the Late Triassic Period.

Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur - an extinct ... dinosaurs", they first appeared in the early Triassic period (251 million to 199 million ...

Fossil thieves, crumbling bones and large amounts of bird poo were just a few of the challenges faced by the team that uncovered a "sea dragon" in Rutland. The UK's largest, most complete ...