A fossil fragment that disappeared for around two decades has helped scientists identify a previously unknown reptile that lived about 240 million years ago long before dinosaurs came to dominate the ...

The ancient reptile has just two living relatives, both of which are endangered ...

Tens of millions of years before the Ancient Egyptians erected their iconic monuments, the quarry from which they extracted their building materials was home to a crocodylian thought to be related to ...

Reconstruction of a juvenile Huphsuchus in its natural habitat Photo: Courtesy of Hubei Institute of Geosciences. An ...

A "peculiar" new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, U.S., following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating to around 160 million years ago. The newly ...

CT scans helped determine that the fossil unearthed in Egypt came from a distinctly different ancient species.

Around 309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the area around Chicago was a swampy river delta swarming with early land-dwelling animals, giant insects and strange swimming animals. What ...

A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and intestines. The discovery reveals that Austronaga minuta was highly adapted ...