The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at ...

In the oceans, ichthyosaurs were thriving along with plesiosaurs. More familiar to us would have been the marine crocodiles and the sharks and rays. Ancient relatives of squids and octopi ...

These include many type and figured skeletons of plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and marine crocodiles, including: The collection also contains other important marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias of ...

Unlike ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, which dominate the fossil record of this formation, plesiosaurs are comparatively rare. The new discovery, therefore, provides a rare glimpse ...

She is remembered for making a number of important fossil discoveries of extinct animals, including ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs - large reptiles that lived in the sea. But these creatures weren't all ...

Giant reptiles such as the dolphin-shaped ichthyosaurs and the long-necked and paddle-finned plesiosaurs preyed on fish and ancient squid. The bottom rung of the food chain was filled with ...

The University of Southampton's Hidden in Stone, which features a cast of Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning's Plesiosaurus, ...

Compared with ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, plesiosaurs fossils are rare. The discovery therefore offers a rare glimpse into the biodiversity of these long-necked marine reptiles.

Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, oh, my! The prehistoric oceans and shallow seas that covered most of present-day North America and Europe were rife with such now-extinct monsters.

Unlike ichthyosaurs and marine crocodile relatives, which dominate the fossil record of this formation, plesiosaurs are comparatively rare. The new discovery, therefore, provides a rare glimpse ...