A year after the first Jurassic-era bone fragments were found in the Malone Mountains of West Texas, a new ancient discovery ...

A father and his 11-year-old daughter were in for a shock when they discovered a two-metre-long jawbone on a beach in Devon, south-west England, in 2020. They immediately alerted t ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Before Texas was what it is known today, it was a vast sea full of marine reptiles. Now, one of those creatures has been found - its remains, that is - during construction work. St ...

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Paleontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what's so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...