An ichthyosaur fossil that was discovered over a century ago near Fernie B.C, was recently declared the most complete ...

Consequently, these marine reptiles likely possessed stiffened necks and waited to ambush their prey. But Tanystropheus 's predators apparently also took advantage of the long neck for their own gain.

They aimed to determine how distinctions were distributed throughout the tree of life. Then, they analyzed the largest-ever-assembled collection of 2D and 3D images of marine reptiles to compare the ...

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger ...

This small reptile was also a herbivore and the researchers interpret its upright, bipedal ability as a mechanism for escaping predators, not becoming one as in the case of dinosaurs.

Serrations at the edges of a fossilized flipper of the ancient marine reptile Temnodontosaurussuggests it may have been able to swim silently.

Terror birds were at the top of the food chain, but one may have been killed in a vicious battle with a caiman, scientists found ...

It gave rise to a dynasty of marine reptile mega-predators that ruled the oceans for around 80 million years,” explained Sven Sachs, a researcher at the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld.

NEW YORK (AP) — The fossilized skeletons of an aerial predator with a 20-foot (6-meter) wingspan and an aquatic reptile with a snake-like neck will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's ...

The new study, published in the journal Biology Letters, compared the size and shape of the teeth marks to the skulls and teeth of crocodile-like predators in museum collections. It provides rare ...