Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. (Gabriel Ugueto via SWNS) By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

For more than two centuries, scientists have argued over where dinosaurs came from and how a scattered set of bones turned into a global dynasty. After decades of fieldwork and lab work, a clearer ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of early reptiles called archosauromorphs not only survived but thrived, venturing ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...

Somewhere in Earth’s past, some branches on the tree of life adopted a body plan that made breathing and cooling down considerably more efficient than how mammalian bodies like ours do it. This ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating the body, and were used for courtship, display, deterrence of enemies and, ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Scientists have discovered a 246 million-year-old marine reptile fossil, the oldest of its kind to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, shining a new light on the early evolution of marine mammals.

Maria McNamara receives funding from the European Research Council and Research Ireland. A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is ...

An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs. The complete specimen discovered in Germany finally shows how now extinct ...