No one knew why so many immense reptiles were bunched together. In the middle of the Nevada desert, in rocks dating back over 225 million years, paleontologists uncovered the remains of at least seven ...

Complete tooth and partial jaws (UMNH VP 32539) of the ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis from Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada. These new fossils demonstrate that Shonisaurus was an apex predator ...

Fossilized bones, representing at least seven separate ichthyosaur skeletons, have been color-coded where each color corresponds to a different skeleton. Findings published today in the journal ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Deep in the stone at the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (BISP) in ...

For decades, paleontologists have tried to explain what they assumed was a 230-million-year-old scene of mass death. The mystery has haunted paleontologists for decades: What explains a fossilized ...

Known as Shonisaurus popularis, the species resembled a chunky dolphin that grew to at least 15.2 meters long and died in large numbers at one particular site some 230 million years ago.

Artist’s life reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, 2022. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto. Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive ...

Some 230 million years ago, massive dolphinlike reptiles called ichthyosaurs gathered to breed in safe waters — just like many modern whales do. “This is something we see in modern marine vertebrates ...

Across the sprawl of a 60-by-30-foot screen at the Nevada Museum of Art, ghostly leviathans of deep time erupt into a vivid dance; Shonisaurus popularis, Nevada’s state fossil, have been reanimated ...

A jawbone found in southwestern England belonged to a giant ichthyosaur. An ancient jawbone found in southwestern England belonged to a gigantic sea creature, almost as big as a blue whale, that ...