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

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery ... safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur—a marine reptile that lived during ...

Tracks in Australia appear to be the earliest known amniote prints — a group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.

The marine predator fossils represent one of the most complete plesiosaur specimens in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

Fossils including sharks' teeth from the dinosaur age have been uncovered during ground investigations for East West Rail.

Paleontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what's so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

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

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

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

Long before neighborhoods sprawled across North Texas, ancient seas teemed with formidable marine reptiles. One of those long ...