Leicestershire County Council has announced it will host an event to showcase archaeological finds discovered during the construction of Pork Pie Way. It said items discovered during the road's ...

A campaign to have a giant fossil known as the Rutland sea dragon brought to a local museum has been launched after plans for ...

Imagine diving into ancient oceans 250 million years ago, where sleek, torpedo-shaped creatures sliced through the water with dolphin-like grace. These weren’t mammals, though—they were reptiles that ...

Exploring Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, along with a visit to Austin, NV, and a nearby hot springs. On this trip, host Chris Orr begins on Highway 50, the “Loneliest Road in America,” in the ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

The shoreline between Charmouth and Seatown in Dorset, United Kingdom, has come to be known as the “Jurassic Coast” of England. Geological formations have revealed prehistoric creatures stuck in the ...

A fossil unearthed along the coast of England was identified as a new species of a renowned “sword dragon” reptile that dominated the sea during the Jurassic Period. The nearly complete ichthyosaur ...

A near-complete skeleton found on the UK's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of ichthyosaur—a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the ancient oceans. The ...

An international research team from Switzerland and Germany, led by Gaël Spicher (JURASSICA Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland), has described a new ichthyosaur species based on fossils curated at the ...

The fossil of a 7.1-metre marine reptile found in western Queensland has been donated to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum at Winton. It is believed to be one of the most complete ichthyosaur ...

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

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