Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil, discovering both smooth and ...

The Megalosaurus is essential to paleontology. Learn what discoveries made this dinosaur important.

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A ...

Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil represented a distinct species from its much smaller peers. Not so, researchers report ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs ... from the shore or scavenged its dead body. The fossil is now on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in ...

This summary highlights key findings from recent studies that contribute to our understanding of lizard and snake evolution in the fossil record. One significant area of research involves the ...

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 ...

In the oil-rich Permian Basin, the dunes sagebrush lizard faces extinction. Will Donald Trump finally do it in?