A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been a new genus and species ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

Today, tegus are considered invasive creatures in Florida, but a new paper suggests they’ve lived in the southeastern United ...

Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, ...

Based on the fossil record, amniotes were thought to have evolved around 320 million years ago. However, this new ... reptile." These footprints are the earliest clawed prints ever discovered.

John Long, Flinders University; Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, Uppsala University, and Per Ahlberg, Uppsala University ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles ... in the DNA of living species to estimate their evolutionary ...