Anewly described reptile from New Mexico is giving scientists a fresh look at the evolutionary experiments that unfolded before dinosaurs came to dominate Earth. Named Labrujasuchus expectatus, the ...

A 240-million-year-old reptile discovered in Brazil is revealing what evolution looked like just before the rise of dinosaurs ...

An83-million-year-old reptile fossil unearthed in southern France has been officially recognized as a new species and named Acutodon villeveyracensis in honor of the village where it was found. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Triassic fossil reveals a two-legged, beaked reptile that evolved along the crocodile lineage. (CREDIT: Jorge Gonzalez, ...

Chinese scientists studying a 244-million-year-old ichthyosaur Mixosaurus fossil from Southwest China’s Guizhou Province ...

Learn more about a newly identified Ice Age toad species whose fossils sat unnoticed in a La Brea Tar Pits collection for ...

The museum made the announcement this week , saying the unique structure of the skull, jaws and teeth of the sail-backed reptile indicate it was an herbivore, and that such specialized plant-eating ...

Chinese scientists have identified a 244-million-year-old reptile fossil from Southwest China's Yunnan province as the earliest known archosauromorph that was highly adapted to life in water, ...

A new fossil discovery indicates that some species had enormous litters of babies. A paper published in the journal PeerJ in ...

A tiny fossil overlooked for decades at La Brea Tar Pits has turned out to belong to a species previously unknown to science.