These creatures, still the biggest marine reptiles found to date, dominated the prehistoric seas as top predators, sporting a long, toothy snout, four flippers, and a streamlined body built for ...

That doesn’t mean what would become Shasta County didn’t have its own amazing prehistoric critters ... These carnivorous marine reptiles swam in both shallow and deep waters, where they ...

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...

Now, thanks to data collected from CT scans, the research team were able to digitally reconstruct the entire skull in 3D. It is the first time a digital reconstruction of a skull and mandible of a ...

Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other reptiles in the same group (previously called 'mammal-like reptiles' and now called ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical ... Contained within three-dimensionally preserved limestone concretions, the remains of ...