For its last meal, an ancient marine reptile called an ichthyosaur may have bitten off more than it could chew. The dolphinlike creature was nearly 5 meters long, about the length of a canoe. And its ...

A razor-snouted marine reptile with dinner-skewer teeth, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, has been added to the ichthyosaur family ...

Closeup of the stomach area of a fossil ichthyosaur, Guizhouichthyosaurus, showing part of the body of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur had swallowed its prey shortly before it died and ...

The stomach of a 15-foot fossil ichthyosaur excavated in China contained this massive chunk of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur swallowed its prey shortly before it died and was ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China recently discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur. But they also found something completely unexpected — a ...

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. By Kate Golembiewski In 1811, a ...

Paleontologists discovered Oda's remarkably intact fossilized skeleton in Svalbard in 2008. Engelschiøn et al. PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 Today, polar bears and reindeer roam the islands of Svalbard, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nearly complete fossil skeleton found on the U.K.'s Jurassic Coast represents a newly identified species of ancient marine ...

During the era of the dinosaurs on land, a group of prehistoric marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs lived in the oceans. Find out what fossils have revealed about these animals, which included the ...