WHEN Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park hit the big screen in 1993, fictional paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler made fossil hunting look cool. However, Brit holidaymakers ...

These and many other types of ancient reptiles are often wrongly called dinosaurs. Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other ...

But the team also points out that plesiosaurs died out along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Bones and teeth from 3m (10ft) long adults and an arm bone from a 1.5m (5ft) long baby were ...

Years later, she discovered the fossilized skeleton of another prehistoric sea creature, the plesiosaur. Dolnick describes how eagerly museums displayed the fossils Anning found, but left her name ...

The word dinosaur didn’t come into existence until ... fossils of giant marine reptiles such as the ichthyosaur and plesiosaur collected by paleontologist Mary Anning on England’s Dorset ...

Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has bones that are preserved in three ...

Dinosaurs are land animals, so to have been preserved in these types of rocks they would have had to be washed into the sea. While large marine reptile fossils such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs ...

Andy has travelled back in time over 250 million years to the time off the dinosaur! Play Andy's Dinosaur Adventure game to find dinosaurs, complete challenges and collect all the badges.

Virginia has 280 dinosaur fossils, including small insects and sea creatures, making it a significant location for dinosaur ...

including finding the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton and the first plesiosaur skeleton. And there are still plenty of skeletons, dinosaur footprints and fossilised treasures waiting to be ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been a hotly debated topic for decades, and whether it was an asteroid, a volcanic eruption or even poisonous plant species. But researchers have found hard ...