Articles related to "Ichthyosaurs"

Mary Anning is the real life heroine in Remarkable Creatures, a fascinating story of finding dinosaur fossils on a beach. Tracy Chevalier transports the reader yet again.

A homoplasy is a feature shared by different organisms that was not present in their most recent common ancestor. Homoplasies demonstrate adaptation in the living world.

What prehistoric monsters lurked in the deep oceans long ago? Are there other lake monsters like Nessie? Fascinate your child with Sea Monsters.

Early life became complex and eventually fish evolved, later giving way to the marine reptiles, then to the marine mammals as the 'highest' life-forms.

The evolution of cetaceans - this is, whales, dolphins and porpoises - is a fascinating thread of paleontology.

Mary Anning was a fossil hunter of extraordinary talent whose work was vital to the study of natural history and, ultimately, to the understanding of evolution.

Rebounding from a mass extinction, the Triassic period saw the rise of reptiles and dinosaurs, the splitting of a continent, and the appearance of the first mammals.