Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, opens new tab, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long tail, or about 1 meter (39 inches) long and weighing between 3 and 6 kg ...

Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

By combing the details preserved by both fossils, Victor and a team of scientists concluded that the animal was an extinct species new to science. Sphenodraco scandentis appears to be the earliest ...

A brand new species of ancient snake has been discovered in western Wyoming. The fossilized snake, thought to have lived some 38 million years ago, has been named Hibernophis breithaupti ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other researchers believe it is probably a fake ...

The species went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra for about 37,000 years ...

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, opens new tab, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long tail, or about 1 meter (39 inches) long and weighing between 3 and 6 kg ...

In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...