First, the beer was named for the fossil.Now, it’s come full circle, as a species of the fossil found in Nevada is named for the maker of the beer.The first giant creature to inhabit the earth, the ...

Nearly 40 school-bus-sized marine reptiles lay petrified in stone at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. The fossils have been studied for decades and the story of the ichthyosaur (Shonisaurus popularis) ...

RENO — As many as 37 fossilized, school bus-sized marine reptiles from 225 million years ago are clustered in a remote, mountainous desert region of central Nevada in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park ...

The fossilized skull of a marine reptile called an ichthyosaur is now being studied after being found in B.C.'s Kiskatinaw River valley, roughly 52 kilometres south of Fort St. John. Local resident ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --Researchers believe they have found an explanation as to what happened to dozens of prehistoric marine reptiles whose fossils blanket Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The ...

Scientists have discovered fossils of a new species of aquatic reptile that may represent the first giant animal that ever lived on Earth. Named Cymbospondylus youngorum, the creature is a new type of ...

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 ...

Reconstruction of the Shonisaurus, a giant ichthyosaur. (Nobumichi Tamura.jpg) (CN) — Paleontologists identified fossils from three massive marine reptiles that may be the largest animals to have ever ...