A chance museum discovery has led paleontologists to identify a new species of ancient reptile, Sphenodraco scandentis, that likely lived in trees during the Late Jurassic. Published in the Zoological ...

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

Life Ancient armoured animal leads to rethink of reptile evolutionary tree. Fossilised remains of a 250-million-year-old animal are leading to a new understanding of how reptiles evolved in the ...

Changes in the tree canopy facilitated the evolution of the first-ever gliding reptile. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 09 / 220908193820.htm ...

The fossil was extracted from rocks dating back 305 million years, about 15 million years older than the previously oldest-known, tree-climbing reptile found in Germany.

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin ...

The discovery of a giant marine reptile skull in the United States has revealed new theories about the speed of evolution and how quickly the process can produce diversity. CNN values your feedback 1.

The study focuses on reptile evolution across 57 million years — before, ... Simões and colleagues’ detailed work has refined the complex evolutionary tree for reptiles and their ancestors.

New research suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by comparing anatomy rather than gene sequences is misleading. The study shows that we often need to overturn centuries of ...