A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither scale, nor bone, nor feather. The extinct creature's 247-million-year-old ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

The newly classified species, named Plesionectes longicollum ("long-necked near-swimmer"), represents a previously unknown type of plesiosauroid—the group of long-necked marine reptiles that inhabited ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

The remains of an 85-million-year-old reptile — the oldest fossils ever found in Israel — were identified in the Arava Desert. Some 30 fossils belonging to the Elasmosaurus, a large carnivorous ...

Marine palaeoecosystems of the past are intricately linked with the diverse assemblages of fossil reptiles especially in the Mesozoic. Recent work has shown a much greater diversity of such Mesozoic ...

Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...