Here are seven flying reptiles that continue to fascinate dinosaur hunters and paleontologists ... They likely fed primarily on fish and small marine organisms. The fossil record shows Nyctosaurus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The fins of these marine reptiles became more compact ... They were eventually wiped out during the same extinction event that killed the non-bird dinosaurs. Find out more about why we need to ...

On a spring day 66 million years ago, paddlefish and sturgeon swam in a river that meandered through a flourishing landscape populated by mighty dinosaurs and small mammals at North Dakota’s ...

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 ...

But the team also points out that plesiosaurs died out along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ... palaeontologists have always called them 'marine reptiles', they had to live in the sea?

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.