A marine reptile called an ichthyosaur ripped into the nutritious torso of a slightly smaller marine reptile 240 million years ago, swallowed it and promptly died, according to a new study. The animal ...

In the age of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles had extremely long necks compared to reptiles today. While it was clearly a successful evolutionary strategy, paleontologists have long suspected that ...

A literal sea change disrupted the balance of aquatic predators during the middle Cretaceous. Before that period, during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, fierce aquatic reptilian predators ...

In honor of National Reptile Awareness Day, here are some of the coolest reptile superpowers you probably didn't know about.

The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur -- a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely ...

Now, paleontologists have found direct fossil evidence of prehistoric, long-necked marine reptiles being decapitated by predators. While dinosaurs ruled the land, marine reptiles prowled the seas.

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 ...