For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian palaeontologists has discovered remains of ...

WHERE: Dinosaur Journey, Fruita, Colo. COST: General admission to museum is $8.50 for adults, $6.50 for seniors, and $5.25 for children. When toothy beasts ruled the deep (around 80-90 million years ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new prehistoric species in Morocco — a bizarre-looking marine lizard considerably larger than a great white shark, which, they say, dominated the seas while ...

Shortly after an asteroid smashed into Earth about 65.5 million years ago, obliterating much of life on Earth, an ancient sea turtle with a triangular-shaped head swam along the relatively arid shores ...

New study identifies a bizarre new species suggesting that giant marine lizards thrived before the asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago. New study identifies a bizarre new species suggesting ...

Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan receives funding from the National Research Foundation. Sir Richard Owen came up with the name dinosaur in 1841 to describe the fossils of extinct reptiles. He coined the word ...