A year after the first Jurassic-era bone fragments were found in the Malone Mountains of West Texas, a new ancient discovery ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

A father and his 11-year-old daughter were in for a shock when they discovered a two-metre-long jawbone on a beach in Devon, south-west England, in 2020. They immediately alerted t ...

Geologists discovered a fossilised single vertebra of the giant sea lizard known as a mosasaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period, approximately between 82 and 66 million years ago.

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

Before Texas was what it is known today, it was a vast sea full of marine reptiles. Now, one of those creatures has been found - its remains, that is - during construction work. St ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Paleontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what's so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.