A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic ...

A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa's arid Karoo region. In March 2022, ...

The findings confirm that communal living among land-living reptiles happened further back in time than we thought ...

This primitive, 85-million-year-old marine reptile was a fierce predator, measuring 12 meters in length. Unlike any known ...

Scientists identify a new elasmosaur species, Traskasaura sandrae. Fossils found in British Columbia reveal a unique mix of ancient and modern traits.

The elasmosaurids were a genus of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the United States. These were large marine reptiles known for their exceptionally long necks.

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks looking for ants, reptiles and other critters, ...

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

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.