The fossilised remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres long has been found on a beach…
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Illustration of an Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass washed up on a beach Sergey Krasovskiy The 200-million-year-old fossilised remains of an ancient…
Read More »Paleontologists already know that the extinct marine reptile ichthyosaurs were enormous. Some newly described jawbone fossils uncovered in England represent…
Read More »A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new…
Read More »Gliding winged-reptiles were amongst the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, researchers at the University of Bristol…
Read More »Captorhinus aguti, an ancient reptile that may be the source of the oldest fossilised skin Michael deBraga A collection of…
Read More »Usually, fossilized animal remains result from bits of bone or impressions of a creature long-passed. But sometimes a specific place…
Read More »AN ENORMOUS Jurassic pliosaur skull extracted from a cliff in Dorset, UK, is offering scientists a wealth of new information…
Read More »A new iguana joins Asia’s rich reptile fauna, officially described as new to science in the open-access journal ZooKeys. “From…
Read More »Sir David Attenborough with the restored pliosaur skull in the workshop of the Etches Collection Museum, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK. BBC…
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