A giant, deadly sea reptile skull is unearthed in England The pliosaur, which existed millions of years ago, would chomp down with its 130 teeth in a bite far stronger than a crocodile's and had a ...

London — The skull of an enormous ancient sea monster called a pliosaur has been pulled from cliffs on the U.K.'s southern Jurassic Coast. The pliosaur was a marine reptile that lived around 150 ...

Just the skull of the pliosaur, a marine reptile, was around six feet long, indicating how massive the sea monster would have been. It had a parietal — or third — eye and glands on its snout ...

A massive fossil skull has emerged from the cliffs of Dorset, sending ripples through the paleontological community. Found at Kimmeridge Bay, part of the renowned Jurassic Coast in southern ...

The discovery of the six-foot-long fossil could offer new clues about the pliosaur, known as the largest carnivorous reptile to ever live. By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Derrick Bryson Taylor In the ...

Hupehsuchus and its close relatives’ skull proportions overlapped with modern baleen whales’ skulls, indicating that the ancient reptiles were filter feeders, too.

Skulls of Hupehsuchus (left and centre) and the minke whale (right) showing similar long snout with narrow, loose bones, indicating attachment of expandable throat pouch. (Zi-Chen Fang et al) ...

The skull is named after Annabelle's friend, Finn, and because it has a fin.

“Deep inside the skull of every one of us there is something like a brain of a crocodile” – Carl Sagan, Cosmos. In science, reptiles have been considered to be of lower intelligence compared ...

Meet Finn, the reptile skull named by a six-year-old competition winner. Annabelle, from Birmingham, named the skull after her friend Finn and the fact that the reptile had a fin that it used to ...