A tiny lizard fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, is 205 million years old. It shifts Squamata origins back by 35 million ...

AN ANCIENT lizard dating back 205million years has been confirmed to be the “world’s oldest” in a fresh study. The fossilised ...

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

A HIKER stumbled across an unbelievable “lost world” after discovering the fossilised footprints of an ancient reptile older ...

Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world.

A newly discovered pterosaur fossil is shedding light on the evolutionary journey of these ancient flying reptiles. This complete specimen, named Skiphosoura bavarica, provides crucial insights into ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, ...

Skiphosoura represents a critical step beyond the Darwinopterus. Its head and neck resemble the more advanced pterodactyloids ...

A HIKER stumbled across an unbelievable "lost world" after discovering the fossilised footprints of an ancient reptile older than ... predating dinosaurs, the fossils revealed they would have ...

Snakes were not always slithering creatures. Scientists have discovered that snakes descended from lizards with legs. Over ...

Since 1997, Wang Xiaolin and his team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese ...