An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

A chance museum discovery has led paleontologists to identify a new species of ancient reptile, Sphenodraco scandentis, that ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

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The first flying reptiles were more picky about where they lived than first realised, meaning that their fossils aren’t necessarily where they’re expected to be. Early pterosaurs loved temperate and ...

Pterosaurs meanwhile appear to have been at first confined to the more humid conditions found in smaller areas of the ancient world, based on fossils found in modern day Italy and Austria, and ...

Dr Davide Foffa, corresponding author Pterosaurs meanwhile appear to have been at first confined to the more humid conditions found in smaller areas of the ancient world, based on fossils found in ...

Reptiles were also at the centre of a presentation given by Susan Evans and Marc Jones (Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre and Curator of Fossil Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, London) at ...

If this interpretation is correct, it pushes the origin of reptiles, and thus amniotes as a whole, back by 35 million years to the earliest Carboniferous. Further support comes from new fossil reptile ...

A fossil unearthed in the badlands of Alberta, Canada, has offered a rare glimpse into the interactions between ancient reptiles that lived over 76 million years ago. Researchers studying the ...