Researchers just discovered a 66-million-year-old sea lizard in a phosphate mine near Casablanca, Morocco. The Khinjaria ...

A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...

Dr. Benton added: “All the details of the skull, the jaws ... features in Cryptovaranoides and other modern and fossil ...

Skull of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus platydon ... The collection also contains other important marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias of Dorset, in the UK, including those of Thomas Hawkins ...

The couple found the marine reptile fossil in 2016—first its tail, then its skull—not far from where they live. The skull is the most complete ever found. Garcia doesn’t have a degree in ...

Fossil skeleton of the new lizard-like reptile Opisthiamimus gregori. The fossil was discovered in the Morrison Formation of the Bighorn Basin, north-central Wyoming, and dates to the Late ...

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A new species of primitive reptile, named Marmoretta ... he analyzed isolated fragments of jaws, skulls, limbs, and vertebrae—including 150 fossils stored in the Geological Museum of Lisbon.