A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey ...

The evolutionary quirks unveiled by the new research offer insight into how a subset of ichthyosaurs lived and hunted– and ...

A thrilling fossil discovery on England’s Jurassic Coast has revealed a brand-new species of prehistoric mammal, thanks to the sharp eye and fieldwork of a University of Portsmouth paleontology ...

A remarkable discovery of ancient fish fossils has revealed a chilling and unusual pattern: Tharsis, a now-extinct genus of ray-finned fish, may have met its end in the same tragic way. Analysis of ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish ...

D scans of ancient lungfish jaws reveal how early fish evolved to eat differently - offering fresh insight into vertebrate evolution.

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching. A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...