A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been confirmed through joint research by Okayama ...

Scientists were able to unlock the identity of an ichthyosaur that had been reduced to a two-dimension jumble of bones. By Jack Tamisiea While exploring an Arctic mountaintop in 2008, paleontologists ...

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, ...