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

The fossil of a previously unknown ichthyosaur species had been mistaken as a plaster model in a museum for more than 30 years, according to findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate ...

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The massive jawbone of a 205-million-year-old ichthyosaur has been discovered in southwestern England, making it "one of the largest animals to ever live" — it was nearly the size of a blue whale. The ...

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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 ...

Scientists have identified the smallest and youngest specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis on record and found an additional surprise preserved in its stomach. Scientists from the UK have identified the ...

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An almost-complete fossil skeleton thought to belong to an Ichthyosaur, an ancient marine predator not dissimilar to a modern-day porpoise, from the Jurassic period has been discovered in India for ...

Artist’s life reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, 2022. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto. Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive ...

Scientists have described a giant new species of ichthyosaur that evolved its 55-foot-long body size only a few million years after the lizards returned to the seas. By Sabrina Imbler About 246 ...

Some 230 million years ago, massive dolphinlike reptiles called ichthyosaurs gathered to breed in safe waters — just like many modern whales do. “This is something we see in modern marine vertebrates ...