A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of ...

The fossil was first discovered in 2001 and passed around between museums before experts were finally able to analyze it this ...

In 2001, a fossil collector named Chris Moore was scouring the rocks of the Golden Cap area of Dorset when he noticed ancient bones on the surface. It was “nearly complete” fossilized remains of an ...

Named Xiphodracon goldencapsis, the new species is an ichthyosaur -- an order of large extinct marine reptiles -- that lived ...

A near-complete skeleton found on the UK's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of ichthyosaur—a type ...