Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a decisive phase in their evolutionary history. It was in this ancient world ...

A fossil preserved for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago ...

Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles.

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 ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals that look oddly familiar today, yet belonged to very different lineages.

A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago ...

A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like a ...

Ah, the circle of death. Specimens found in Australia highlighted a bizarre interspecies drama from the Cretaceous era, ...

The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is famous because adults look like overgrown babies, or tadpoles, retaining juvenile features as adults and capable of remarkable regeneration of lost limbs ...

A prehistoric "crime scene" involving a marine reptile eating one of its flying cousins before being killed by the "T-rex of ...

Let us accept it: science never fails to amaze the human mind, and sometimes, the greatest science isn’t happening in deserts ...

Scientists have examined a fossil from the pre-dinosaur era, gaining new insights into the evolution of reptiles.