It was capable of growing beyond 30 feet in length and weighed around 10 tons—a mature elephant plus a sedan car.

Before Texas was what it is known today, it was a vast sea full of marine reptiles. Now, one of those creatures has been found - its remains, that is - during construction work. St ...

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

A father and his 11-year-old daughter were in for a shock when they discovered a two-metre-long jawbone on a beach in Devon, south-west England, in 2020. They immediately alerted t ...

Leard and Palmer are experienced scientists pursuing their doctoral degrees in earth and atmospheric sciences at MSU while ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

Amateur palaeontologists have found the ... the origin of reptiles and other land-based creatures by 40 million years. Builder Craig Eury and winemaker John Eason were fossil hunting near ...