A fossil found in southern Brazil is giving researchers a closer look at the reptiles that lived near the beginning of the archosaur lineage, the group that would eventually include dinosaurs and ...

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 ...

A new mosasaur species has been identified from a 70-million-year-old fossil found in Egypt’s Western Desert. Its unusually ...

Scientists from China, Europe and the U.S., including Dr. Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, have described a fossil ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged. Analyses place it closer to living apes than any known East African species ...