Palaeontologists found marine predators living in deep waters during the Jurassic Period thrived as sea levels rose A study of fossilised teeth has shed new light on how reptiles adapted to ...

Learn more about this prehistoric long-necked marine reptile and what other creatures it shared the seas with.

The collection also contains other important marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias of Dorset, in the UK, including those of Thomas Hawkins and the Earl of Enniskillen, who both purchased ...

‘This small reptile’s teeth and jaw show features we’ve never seen before in its group,’ said lead author Dr Luke Meade, fellow at the University of Birmingham. ‘It likely fed in a way that ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile.

Its teeth and strong jaw gave the creature a ... and it existed just before the marine reptiles and the dinosaurs went extinct," Dr Longrich said. Both the mosasaurs and dinosaurs became extinct ...

Styxosaurus was an elasmosaur, a long-necked variety of the marine reptiles called plesiosaurs ... The long, pointed teeth of Styxosaurus were useful for seizing and holding prey, but they ...

Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, notable for its unique teeth and jaw, found at a fossil hotspot in southern England. The former quarry in Cromhall, South ...