A newly discovered fossil suggests octopuses up to 19 metres long may have hunted in Cretaceous seas.
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Ancient crocs didn’t just hunt in water – some may have dropped out of trees to catch their prey.
The discovery of the most complete ichthyosaur skeleton known from New Zealand sheds new light on the diversity of these ancient dolphin-like marine reptiles in the southern hemisphere.
Ichthyosaurs were the last giant reptiles to rule our oceans.
Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile.
Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, alongside the fossilised remains of its prey.
The latest medical scanning technology revealed details of a plesiosaur’s inner ear, showing the extinct marine reptiles swam with their head slightly lowered – unlike the Loch Ness ‘sock puppet’.
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