Fossil tracks from Australia reveal reptiles appeared 40 million years earlier than thought. The origin of reptiles on Earth may be up to 40 million years earlier than previously believed, based on ...

Marshall University researchers identified a group of fossils that belonged to a new type of prehistoric aquatic reptile from ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

KOBE--A fossil unearthed from a 110-million-year-old stratum in Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, represents a new genus and a new species of the monstersauria lizard group, a museum said. It is also the o ...

Fossilized footprints discovered in Victoria, Australia, are rewriting reptile evolutionary history. Dating back 359 million ...

It’s not quite Jurassic Park but scientists studying a fossil with a tumour say such research could influence future human ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic ...

A brand new species of elasmosaur named Traskasaura sandrae has been identified from three specimens found on Vancouver ...

Father-daughter team Michael and Heather Trask discover the fossilized bones of an ancient sea lizard near Courtenay, B.C., ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

Scientists find red blood cell-like structures in a dinosaur fossil, shedding light on cancer’s ancient origins.