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

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.

In 2020 a father and daughter found another similar jawbone. Experts now say the fossils are from two giant ichthyosaur reptiles, which could have been 25m long. That is bigger than a huge ...

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

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

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

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

By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived ...

Found in southern Germany, the fossil is notable for being nearly complete and preserved in three dimensions—a rarity in ...