Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

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 fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum in ancient lagoons, new research reveals it spent its time climbing trees ...

PHOENIX — Fossils from the Petrified Forest National Park, in northern Arizona, revealed a new reptile species that thrived during the Triassic Period. Paleontologists and partners with the ...

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Some fossils are truly breathtaking. While paleontologists are used to finding scraps of bones, broken teeth and hazy footprints in ancient rock, every now and then, someone finds a fossil that allows ...

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 ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even since the time of giants, but paleontologists turned to some of the smallest reptile fossils to reveal the power of these storms. While the bigger ...

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 ...

The untold story behind Mike and Heather Trask's fossil discovery and 'the incredible importance of curiosity.' ...