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

The ancient species is a type of pachypleurosaur, a group of primitive sauropterygian reptiles from the Triassic period. These animals resembled aquatic lizards and had small heads, long necks, paddle ...

New Triassic reptile Threordatoth chasmatos identified in Cromhall Unique three-pointed teeth hint at specialised diet and evolution trait Researchers find partial jaw fossils, revealing key insights ...

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 ...

But within 30 million years, many of these marine reptiles went extinct. New research is shedding light on what might have happened. A series of extinction events over 200 million years ago may have ...

Recently, a new species, named Melkamter pateko, has been unearthed in the Chubut province of Argentina. Interestingly, this ...

The collection of a local retired quarryman named Dave Brockhurst was also key to this discovery. Brockhurst has spent the ...

"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 ...

‘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 ...

Based on Haliskia‘s long hyoid bones and conical, interlocking teeth, it would have eaten a diet of fish and squid ... It requires some imagination to visualize pterosaurs at sea, hunting fish and ...