Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

For fossil hunters, locating a well-preserved animal is always exciting, and that was certainly the case when Chris Moore located the intact bones of an ichthyosaur some 24 years ago. He explained ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to around 215 million years ago has been described from the UK. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the approximately 16,000 new species described every year, roughly 6,000 are insects. Pictured here is a lanternfly from ...