Scientists say they have unearthed Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells, potentially shedding light on ancient ...

The fossils were found in 2015, but took nearly a decade of painstaking work to excavate, prepare, sort, identify, and analyse. The long-awaited ...

The almost complete skeleton of a long-snouted ichthyosaur—now classified as Xiphodracon goldencapensis, or the "Sword Dragon ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, ...

A new pterosaur species, _Bakiribu waridza_, was unexpectedly discovered within a fossilized dinosaur vomit by Brazilian researchers.

Hidden beneath the ancient canopy of Sri Lanka’s dry forests and shaded cliff faces lies a gallery like no other — a ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of flying reptile, named Bakiribu waridza. The most compelling detail of the ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian ('fish-lizard') Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (centre). A school of the ...

In a remarkable find that sheds light on prehistoric life, scientists have uncovered Australia's oldest known crocodile eggshells, believed to belong to a unique group of tree-climbing crocodiles ...

Surprisingly, the trace fossil preserved the remains of an entirely new pterosaur species that was consumed and then ...

Ancient skin pigments reveal that many turtles and "sea monsters" sported dark colors for tens of millions of years, a new study says.