No one knew why so many immense reptiles were bunched together. In the middle of the Nevada desert, in rocks dating back over 225 million years, paleontologists uncovered the remains of at least seven ...

Fossilized bones, representing at least seven separate ichthyosaur skeletons, have been color-coded where each color corresponds to a different skeleton. Findings published today in the journal ...

Artist’s life reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, 2022. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto. Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Deep in the stone at the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (BISP) in ...

CNN — The final resting place for dozens of massive prehistoric marine reptiles lies in what's now Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. But why the ichthyosaurs died in such large numbers at ...

Across the sprawl of a 60-by-30-foot screen at the Nevada Museum of Art, ghostly leviathans of deep time erupt into a vivid dance; Shonisaurus popularis, Nevada’s state fossil, have been reanimated ...

Nearly 40 school-bus-sized marine reptiles lay petrified in stone at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. The fossils have been studied for decades and the story of the ichthyosaur (Shonisaurus popularis) ...

RENO — As many as 37 fossilized, school bus-sized marine reptiles from 225 million years ago are clustered in a remote, mountainous desert region of central Nevada in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park ...

Although species ranges don’t abide by artificially drawn borders, there are certain extinct animals that are only found in the Americas. Continents have moved around over Earth’s history and allowed ...

For decades, paleontologists have tried to explain what they assumed was a 230-million-year-old scene of mass death. By Darren Incorvaia The mystery has haunted paleontologists for decades: What ...

A jawbone fossil found on a rocky English beach belongs to one of the biggest marine animals on record, a type of seagoing reptile called an ichthyosaur that scientists estimated at up to 26 metres ...

A jawbone found in southwestern England belonged to a giant ichthyosaur. An ancient jawbone found in southwestern England belonged to a gigantic sea creature, almost as big as a blue whale, that ...