Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, notable for its unique teeth and jaw, found at a fossil hotspot in southern England. The former quarry in Cromhall, South ...

an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles, has been unearthed in Morocco. The newly discovered species is a marine lizard known for having unusual-looking teeth: low, rectangular, and compressed ...

Only a handful of mammals can regrow teeth multiple times, compared to the 50,000 species of reptiles and fish. Take geckos, for example, who will replace all 100 teeth, or so, every 3 to 4 months.

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Sep. 5, 2024 — Researchers have discovered they can consistently measure reptiles' pulse rate in an ... that the serrated edges of Komodo dragons' teeth are tipped with iron.

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery of a Cretaceous-period jaw with unusual teeth in a Moroccan ... species of extinct marine reptile, Xenodens calminechari ...

The great reptile, Megalosaurus, is known by more numerous fragments, but they have been gathered from many different localities; Dinodon is known only from its teeth, and Euscelosaurus ...

3. Dermal skull roof or dermatocranium A shield of membrane or dermal bone covering the top and sides of the head and extending down to the jaw rims, with a marginal row of teeth. In amphibians & stem ...

Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide ... gripping a wriggling fish in its teeth. Along the shore diminutive pterosaurs called Tapejara wellnhoferi pluck nuts and fruit from ...