An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

A chance museum discovery has led paleontologists to identify a new species of ancient reptile, Sphenodraco scandentis, that ...

The fossil was first found in the 1930s in Germany’s Solnhofen limestone, famous for preserving Jurassic life. One half ended ...

A chance discovery of two separated fossils has unlocked the secrets of Sphenodraco scandentis, an ancient tree-climbing ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Snakes climbing trees use significantly more force than necessary to grip, a strategy detailed in Biology Letters. This overcompensation, sometimes tr ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, ...

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

But the branch of the evolutionary tree that led to modern reptiles, birds and mammals, known as amniotes, developed feet with nails or claws fit for walking on hard ground.

But the branch of the evolutionary tree that led to modern reptiles, birds and mammals, known as amniotes, developed feet with nails or claws fit for walking on hard ground.

Triassic Reptiles Traveled a 10,000-Mile-Long Dead Zone, Leading to Dinosaur Evolution Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during ...