More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

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

Human and animal fossils are a window into the past that give us a connection between the present and the past. Scientists dug up a specimen that is so old and unique that it nudges back the origins ...

April 17 (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have ...

In England, the “sword dragon” is discovered, a new species of Jurassic ichthyosaur that reveals clues about marine evolution ...

The small predatory reptile lived among the largest apex predators. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient crocodile-like reptile that once roamed the lands and waters of Brazil. The ...

Pterosaur's neck bone shows evidence of a croc bite Fossil found at Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park Jan 24 (Reuters) - About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures ...

Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

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

A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a ...