Take for instance a new sea monster that was one of Earth’s top predators 40 million years before the dinosaurs came along ... ‘It’s got a big, flat, toilet seat-shaped head, which ...

The nearly 20-foot-long aquatic reptile was a big fan of eating crunchy ocean creatures ... Mollusks and other shelled sea animals were all fair game for dinner, and the ichthyosaur’s powerful ...

Sea reptiles the size of whales ... The creature would have been one of the largest ever known, behind only blue whales and dinosaurs, say scientists. The ancient jawbone was found near the ...

Palaeontologists say they are in a "race against time" to recover a huge prehistoric sea monster from eroding cliffs on the Jurassic Coast. The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from ...