Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

In a discovery that would make Mary Anning proud, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds stumbled upon what would turn out to be the biggest marine reptile fossil ever found while casually strolling along a ...

An international team of scientists has unearthed the oldest sea-going reptile fossil ever found in the Southern Hemisphere—a nothosaur vertebra from 246 million years ago.

A landowner in Argentina discovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric marine reptile, identified as an ichthyosaur, in the province of Neuquén.

Researchers in Canada have raised doubts about the authenticity of the fossil used to identify and describe a new species of extinct marine reptile, Xenodens calminechari, in 2021.

Juvenile elasmosaur discovered 2020. CREDIT: The Courtenay and District Museum and Palaeontology Centre. This combination of unusual physical features potentially relates to its hunting style.

Mississippi State University scientists have discovered a massive bone belonging to a marine reptile that has been extinct for millions of years. The mosasaur vertebra, ... Mississippi State doctoral ...

The fossil, identified as the flipper bone of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile, ... the paleontologist who discovered the fossil in 1995, describes ichthyosaurs as air-breathing reptiles, ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has ...