On a nice spring day at the end of May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her dad, Justin, were fossil-hunting on Blue Anchor Beach in Somerset, England, when they discovered a fragment of a titanic ...

While dinosaurs ruled the land, large ichthyosaurs stalked their prey across prehistoric oceans—and according to new research, they hunted in lethal silence. Scientists analyzed a well-preserved, ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today. Subscribe to our ...

This illustration depicts a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dean Lomax and Prof Judy Massare with the newly named ‘sword dragon’ ichthyosaur, Xiphodracon goldencapensis - AFP A fossil ...

Millions of years ago, giant marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs were the dominant predators of the world's oceans. Researchers have now unearthed what may have been the largest of these creatures, an ...

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A father and daughter discovered fossil remnants of a giant ichthyosaur that scientists say may have been the largest-known marine reptile to ever... In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and ...

Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of a jawbone that belonged to an ancient marine reptile — perhaps the largest ichthyosaur ever found. Millions of years ago, giant ...

In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside village in Somerset in southwest England, to hunt for fossils along the beach. Upon ...