A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

n artist's interpretation of a large crocodile-like creature An artist's interpretation of a large crocodile-like creature swimming underwater An extinct, 250 million-year-old marine reptile that was ...

Sea turtles have traversed the deep, blue sea for over 100 million years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Today, seven distinct species exist, according to seeturtles.org. Six of them ...

A single vertebra dug out of a boulder in a stream below a mountain in New Zealand in 1978 has now been found to have belonged to the oldest known sea reptile in the Southern Hemisphere, where no ...

A leathery fossil unearthed from Antarctic sediment is overturning core ideas about how Earth’s dominant marine reptiles ...

Scientists have discovered the fossil of a giant "nightmarish" sea creature that hunted the oceans millions of years ago. The prehistoric lizard, Khinjaria acuta, was estimated to be about 26 feet ...

The discovery of the oldest fossil of a marine reptile, dating back 94 million years, is shedding new light on the evolution of animals that would later dominate the oceans. The fossil of the mosasaur ...

Most snakes can only see the colors blue and green, along with ultraviolet light in some cases. New research, however, suggests that sea snakes have evolved to actually regain the wider-color vision ...

(Reuters) - Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur - flying reptile - boasting a bony crest at the ...

Coastal and tropical waters harbor formidable sea snakes, some of the ocean's most potent predators. Species like Dubois's ...