The ichthyosaur fossil has a total length of just around 70 cm and had the remains of a prehistoric squid in its stomach. Ichthyosaurus communis was the first species of ichthyosaur, a group of ...

The results, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, show that the pterosaur Dorygnathus ate small fish, while Campylognathoides ate prehistoric squid. This oldest and world's first ...

Tusoteuthis was a giant squid nearly equal in size to those that ply the oceans today—with their tentacles stretched out, the ancient cephalopods may have measured 25 to 35 feet (8 to 11 meters ...

Scientists have found that prehistoric flying reptiles that lived 182 million years ago lived on a diet of small fish and squid. The “first-ever discovery” of the fossilised stomach contents ...