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10 kwi 2023 · From the creepiest Cambrian critters to massive marine reptiles, wonderfully weird sea creatures have inhabited our oceans for over half a billion years.
The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset's Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150...
17 kwi 2024 · This 80-foot-long sea monster was the killer whale of its time. The discovery of a jawbone fossil suggests that Ichthyotitan severensis may have been the largest ichthyosaur yet known—and hunted...
7 gru 2021 · While the animals that delighted our childhood like the Stegosaurus or the Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the land, the sea was also teeming with cool and unusual life. Hold onto your butts and take a ride through the depths of the prehistoric ocean.
10 sty 2022 · A newly found fossil skeleton of a marine reptile called an ichthyosaur helps reveal the evolutionary history of one of the largest predators in the prehistoric ocean.
17 kwi 2024 · Scientists have identified what was probably the largest marine reptile ever to swim in the seas - a creature longer than two, nose-to-nose buses.
Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, and learn about the work of pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning.
