Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, opens new tab, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long tail, or about 1 meter (39 inches) long and weighing between 3 and 6 kg ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

By combing the details preserved by both fossils, Victor and a team of scientists concluded that the animal was an extinct species new to science. Sphenodraco scandentis appears to be the earliest ...

A brand new species of ancient snake has been discovered in western Wyoming. The fossilized snake, thought to have lived some 38 million years ago, has been named Hibernophis breithaupti ...

Mysterious Fossil Found in Museum Storage Turned Out to Be a New, Extinct Lizard Species Today, tegus are considered invasive creatures in Florida, but a new paper suggests they’ve lived in the ...

The species went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra for about 37,000 years ...

The new species has been named Ferruaspis brocksi, with the genus name coming from the Latin word ferrum, meaning iron, after the iron-rich environment it was found in, and “aspis”, meaning ...

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, opens new tab, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long tail, or about 1 meter (39 inches) long and weighing between 3 and 6 kg ...

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.

In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...