Complete tooth and partial jaws (UMNH VP 32539) of the ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis from Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada. These new fossils demonstrate that Shonisaurus was an apex predator ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 230 million years ago, massive dolphinlike reptiles called ichthyosaurs gathered to breed in safe waters — just like many modern whales do. “This is something we see in modern marine vertebrates ...

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 ...

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 ...

If not for the tenacity of paleontologist Elizabeth "Betsy" Nicholls, the remains of the biggest prehistoric marine reptile ever found might still be embedded in the remote wilderness of British ...

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 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 ...