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Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive migrations across the ocean to breed and give birth in wa
RENO — As many as 37 fossilized, school bus-sized marine reptiles from 225 million years ago are clustered in a remote, mountainous desert region of central Nevada in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. A team of...
An international research team examined a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.
Research suggests that nearly 200 million years before giant whales evolved, school bus-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs may have been making similar migrations to breed and give birth in waters where predators are scarce.
The research, conducted over eight years, methodically eliminated many previous theories about the extinction site.