SOME three-quarters of a century ago the late Sir Richard Owen directed attention to the very frequent occurrence in the flattened skeletons of ichthyosaurs from the Lias of Whitby and Lyme Regis ...

The new discovery has also solved a 150 year old mystery of supposed ‘dinosaur bones’ from the UK. The bone belongs to a giant ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric aquatic reptile, and experts estimate ...

The ichthyosaur fossil has a total length of just around 70 cm and had the remains of a prehistoric squid in its stomach. Ichthyosaurus communis was the first species of ichthyosaur, a group of ...

The ichthyosaur is a sea-dwelling reptile that was reportedly found during both the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. However, evidence of this creature has always been tied to the much older ...