Yet Buckland, Anning, and other specialists who studied plesiosaur fossils in the early 19th century knew precisely what they ...

Queensland Museum Network paleontologists have excavated Australia’s first head and associated body of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile. Paleontologists are calling the fossil found ...

The discovery of a giant 100 million-year-old marine reptile's skeleton in Australia has been hailed by researchers as a breakthrough that may provide vital clues about prehistoric life.The remains of ...

While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators such as crocodiles and giant lizards, but also entirely extinct groups such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Now for ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning found some of the first known fossils of ancient animals such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and pterosaurs, before the term “dinosaur” had been invented. Anning lived in ...