An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

A chance museum discovery has led paleontologists to identify a new species of ancient reptile, Sphenodraco scandentis, that ...

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 ...

More information: Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02739-y ...

How did marine reptiles change in the Triassic? The digitised specimens have been used by Antoine and the rest of the study’s authors in combination with hundreds of scans of plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs ...

Now scientists from the University of Bristol and University of Southampton can reveal that bones found in Triassic rocks in 1935 are one of the last thalattosaurs, a large sea-lizard that behaved ...

Ruby and her father would later discover that they'd just chanced upon part of the largest marine reptile ever found — a giant ichthyosaur from 202 million years ago, near the end of the Triassic ...

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 ...

Correcting the past In 1846, five large bones were found at the Aust Cliff near Bristol in southwestern England. Dug out from the upper Triassic rock formation, they were dubbed “dinosaurian ...