Longman considered Kronosaurus a pliosaur - a group of large marine predators with powerful jaws and four large fins. Read More: 5 of the Most Interesting Prehistoric Marine Reptiles In the Early ...

Although the evidence is rare, fossils reveal that there were Mesozoic reptiles ... and thus the dinosaurs' species cannot be identified. By comparing the fossils with other, more complete remains ...

But within 30 million years, many of these marine reptiles went extinct. New research is shedding light on what might ... They were eventually wiped out during the same extinction event that killed ...

The inland Eromanga Sea was home to a myriad of marine creatures, from turtles and dolphin-like ichthyosaurs to the bus-sized predator Kronosaurus queenslandicus and other plesiosaurs ... However, ...

These marine reptiles, among the most massive ever identified, dominated the oceans during the dinosaur era. A team of British researchers, dedicated for eight years to the meticulous exploration ...

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The ancient species is a type of pachypleurosaur, a group of primitive sauropterygian reptiles from the Triassic period. These animals resembled aquatic lizards and had small heads, long necks, paddle ...

12, 2024 — Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as 'the blob.' Analysis of 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and 2022 ...

Owen named them dinosaurs, a name meaning something like ‘terrible reptiles’, but with ‘terrible’ intended to mean ‘awesome’. The three animals that Owen regarded as founder members of ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with ... during the age of dinosaurs. Skiphosoura lived ...

An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs.