Sept. 30 (UPI) --While dinosaurs dominated dry land, a diversity of marine reptiles ruled ancient ocean ecosystems. Using a combination of modern ecological modeling techniques, researchers have for ...

The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed. Some of the most extraordinary body transformations in evolution have occurred in animals that ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "This group of animals comprises a complex of disparate groups including the dolphin/shark-like ichthyosaurs, manatee-like placodonts, long- ...

California has produced a rich trove of Mesozoic fossils: dinosaurs, flying reptiles, and especially, since most of the state was submerged under water during the Mesozoic Era, marine reptiles. Hilton ...

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Feb. 14 (UPI) --A study of ichthyosaurs, fish-like marine reptiles now extinct, shows the species adapted quickly but a stagnation in development led to their demise. Results of the University of ...

History of the discoveries of dinosaurs and Mesozoic reptiles in Mexico / Jose Ruben Guzman-Gutierrez and Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva -- Paleogeography and paleoenvironment of Mexico during the Mesozoic / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two individuals of Traskasaura sandrae hunt the ammonite Pachydiscus in the northern Pacific during the Late Cretaceous.

Reptiles in time grew to become some of the largest forms of life ever to exist on earth. Reptiles emerged from the Paleozoic as humble creatures, but in time, they grew to become some of the largest ...

Some of the most extraordinary body transformations in evolution have occurred in animals that adapted to life in water from land-living ancestors, such as modern whales, turtles and seals. During the ...