ichthyosaur

Paleontologists unearth possibly the Earth's largest water reptile

This ichtyosaur species would have been absolutely terrifying.

Largest marine reptile ever was twice the size of a city bus

It was simply massive!

Fossil Friday: largest ichthyosaur tooth found in the heights of the Swiss Alps

It's safe to say that mountaintops are not the usual place where you'd find marine fossils.

Ichthyosaur may have had blubber, which means the 'sea monster' may have been warm-blooded

Blubber is extremely rare among reptiles.

Ichthyosaur jaw-bone might have belonged to largest animal ever

The fossil found on a UK beach used to belong to an ancient behemoth.

Impressive 170-million-year old "sea monster" fossil found in Scotland

It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.

Oldest 'fish-lizard' bridges Ichthyosaur evolutionary gap

One of the most long-lived and fiercest marine predator in history was the ichthyosaur, and a recent fossil find from China bridges an important gap in the creature’s evolutionary history. Truly, a fish and a lizard The ichthyosaur (Greek for “fish lizard”), which lived from about 248 million years ago to about 95 million years ago, […]

'Kraken' ancient lair shows signs of a vicious predator

Hundreds of millions of years ago the Earth surface and oceans were inhabited by fierce predators of huge proportions by today’s standards. In those times, more than ever maybe, the saying that there’s always a bigger fish was cruelly true. For instance, a recent study of the fossils remains of an ichthyosaur, a giant school bus-sized […]