A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the fossil is considered to be ...

Two 325-million-year-old ctenacanth shark fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave shed light on ancient marine ecosystems.

A stunning new flying reptile species, Spathagnathus roeperi, has been discovered in Germany.

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...

More than 514 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed Earth, sponge-like creatures called archaeocyathids were ...

Discover the migration routes of ancient reptiles and how they thrived in a nearly lifeless environment after the mass ...

Analysis - A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of ...

A remarkably well-preserved 183-million-year-old Plesiopterys wildi fossil, discovered in southern Germany, is revolutionizing our understanding of plesiosaurs. The fossil, initially found in 1940 but ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has ...

A marine reptile that lived roughly 85 million years ago now bears the name of a fossil hunting family from Vancouver Island. In a sad turn of events, the man responsible for the discovery died ...

A newly identified species of extinct marine reptile, Traskasaura sandrae, has been named for the Courtenay man and his daughter, Mike and Heather Trask, who discovered the first fossils of the ...