The fossil collection of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hannover, Germany, is full of hidden discoveries lately. A plesiosaur skeleton that had been gathering dust for years turned out to be a new ...

The foetus of an Ichthyosaurus has been discovered still inside the womb 200 million years after its mother died during pregnancy. The 3.5 metre (11ft) pregnant ichthyosaur lived at the time of the ...

Ichthyosaurus was a marine reptile that dominated the Mesozoic seas from the Triassic to the Late Cretaceous period.

The largest "sea dragon" fossil on record sat unstudied in a museum for nearly 20 years until a German scientist "rediscovered" it last year. Paleontologist Sven Sachs of the Bielefeld Natural History ...

An illustration shows what the Ichthyosaurus somersetensis probably looked like while it was alive in the early Jurassic period. University of Manchester The biggest fossil ever found of a ...

The validity of the parvipelvian ichthyosaur genus Protoichthyosaurus was evaluated by examining the type material and recently recognized specimens. Protoichthyosaurus has a wide forefin with at ...

Swimming the seas while the dinosaurs were walking the land, ichthyosaurs were a highly diverse group of marine animals. Now, a fossil unearthed in the mid-1990s has been found to be the largest ...

The Ichthyosaurus somersetensis — one of six species in the Ichthyosaurus genus — was first found on the UK coast in the nineties before ending up on display in the Lower Saxony State Museum in ...

Scientists have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record and found it was pregnant at the time of death. Scientists from the UK and Germany have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record ...

Scientists from the United Kingdom and Germany have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record. They also found that the Ichthyosaurus was pregnant at the time of its death. Paleontologist Sven ...

Scientists from the UK and Germany have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record and found it was pregnant at the time of death. The new specimen is estimated to be between 3 and 3.5 m long and ...