The earliest known turtles date from 220 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than lizards, snakes or crocodiles. Of the many species alive ...

While only incomplete parts of its jaw have been discovered to date, the fossils of Threordatoth are important for understanding a little-known group of reptiles known as the procolophonids.

Researchers landed on an uninhabited island known for its archaeological ruins and started looking for snakes, lizards and other reptiles.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

The fossil of a marine reptile discovered in 2021 in the municipality of Marinha Grande is of a new species of ichthyosaur ...

Some 200 million year ago or a bit earlier, pterosaurs evolved as a special group of reptiles not related to dinosaurs. They were significant predators on fish and squid, or insects, or small ...

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...

The team recorded two first-of-their-kind reptile sightings for Despotiko. The first new record involved Eryx jaculus, or the javelin sand boa, from 2019, the study said. A group of archaeologists ...