Paleontological discoveries are becoming more and more surprising, especially considering the latest find by a group of experts who have discovered what is known as a new type of d ...

Retired botanist Arnoldo Santos-Guerra stumbled across the remarkably intact lizard fossil two years ago while searching for snail shells. The 42-pound sandstone block containing the specimen also ...

A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

Caption Fossil skeleton of the new lizard-like reptile Opisthiamimus gregori. The fossil was discovered in the Morrison Formation of the Bighorn Basin, north-central Wyoming, and dates to the Late ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

“Stromer assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, shark-toothed lizard,” researchers said. “At around (32 feet) long, it was one of the largest known land-based carnivores in ...

But in coining the term in his report, Owen refers to dinosaurs instead as ‘fearfully great’, acknowledging their large size – significantly surpassing that of any living reptile. Despite not having ...

A juvenile pterosaur fossil found in Canada shows a crocodile bite from 76 million years ago, offering rare evidence of predator-prey dynamics during the Cretaceous Period. This marks the first North ...

a type of flying reptile called a pterosaur, that may have died in just such a scenario. The fossil, examined under a microscope and with micro-CT scans, has a conical puncture a sixth of an inch ...