These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

A massive fossil skull, retrieved from a cliff near Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset, UK, has stunned paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts alike. Belonging to a pliosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile ...

Whether human or reptile, in the skull of most terrestrial vertebrates there is a gaping hole in the temple; in the case of ...

Cabot '82. Arnold Lewish, museum preparator is restoring the skeleton, which has a nine foot skull, the longest known fossil reptile skull in the world. The fossil's jaws are nearly 10 times as ...

Skull of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus platydon, the first ever discovered. Mary Anning's brother Joseph found the skull in 1810 and Mary found parts of the neck a year later. Our collection ...

It is the first time a digital reconstruction of a skull and mandible of a large marine reptile has ever been made available for research purposes and to the public. Although thousands of ichthyosaur ...

but the skull size is like similar species, meaning it is probably still a small reptile. The animal lived on Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, which was a supercontinent made up of modern-day South ...