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

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

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

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have discovered a massive bone belonging to a marine reptile that has been extinct for millions of years. The mosasaur vertebra, ...

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 ...

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...

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 ...