When it comes to major discoveries in paleontology, you usually picture a bunch of old professors in khaki digging in the desert. But when Ruby Reynolds discovered a truly groundbreaking ichthyosaur fossil that sheds light on what may...

In 1977, a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton. How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains?

New research published in the journal Nature suggests a 68-million-year-old fossil egg may have belonged to an ancient marine reptile called a mosasaur.