The seas of the Mesozoic (266–66 Myr ago) were remarkable for predatory marine reptiles, but their modes of locomotion have been debated. One problem has been the absence of tracks, although there is ...

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A single vertebra dug out of a boulder in a stream below a mountain in New Zealand in 1978 has now been found to have belonged to the oldest known sea reptile in the Southern Hemisphere, where no ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

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The fossil of an ancient reptile discovered in New Zealand has finally been confirmed as the oldest ever to be found in the Southern Hemisphere. A team of scientists from all over the world have now ...

Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

The enormous finned reptile is the oldest of its kind THE REMAINS of an ancient sea-dwelling reptile have been declared the oldest of their kind in the Southern Hemisphere. A paper published Monday in ...

A vertebra from a nothosaur, a type of marine reptile that swam in the seas at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, was found 46 years ago in New Zealand and has now been identified as the oldest ...

In today’s oceans, sea turtles, marine iguanas, saltwater crocodiles, and sea snakes are the primary reptilian residents amongst tons of mammals and fish. This was not always the case, as fossil ...

An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's South Island. 246 million years ...