Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

The neck has 32 separate vertebrae — longer than the creature’s body and tail combined,” said a study published by Cambridge ...

The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests.

A series of extinction events over 200 million years ago may have sealed the fate of many marine reptiles. During the Triassic, between 252-200 million years ago, marine reptiles rapidly diversified ...

A newly described species of marine reptile could be the largest to ever swim the world’s oceans. The “giant fish lizard” lived more than 200 million years ago, and may give the blue whale a ...

The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size ... blue-whale-sized ichthyosaurs were swimming in the oceans around what was the UK during the Triassic Period,” said Dean Lomax, ...

A fossil jawbone found by a young girl and her father on a beach in England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating back to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest ...