These and many other types of ancient reptiles are often wrongly called dinosaurs. Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other ...

Sometimes we look at animals on this planet and can feel their ancestry in their eyes. From reptiles to birds, they carry the ...

and it existed just before the marine reptiles and the dinosaurs went extinct," Dr Longrich said. Both the mosasaurs and dinosaurs became extinct towards the end of the Late Cretaceous period ...

“The fins of these marine reptiles became more compact, which is characteristic of organisms highly ... They were eventually wiped out during the same extinction event that killed the non-bird ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile.

Global first: Baby dinosaur found inside 70-million-year ... indicating the region may have been a nursery for marine reptiles. The idea of mosasaurs laying eggs challenges the long-held belief ...

Mosasaurs are extinct marine lizards, spectacular examples of which were first discovered in 1766 near Maastricht in the ...

Unwin, Vladimir R. Alifanov and Michael J. Benton 11. Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics Glenn W. Storrs, Maxim S. Arkhangelskii and Vladimir M. Efimov 12. Asiatic ...

Setting dinosaurs aside, here are four species ... molluscs and even other marine reptiles. As apex predators in their aquatic ecosystems, mosasaurs dominated the seas until their extinction ...

Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings. Plesiosaurus, an early plesiosaur, was about 4.5 metres ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...