Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the reptile’s back like a fan.

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

Is it possible that feathers weren’t the first extravagant skin appendages in reptiles? The recent discovery of Mirasaura grauvogeli’s remarkable dorsal crest has upended long-held assumptions about ...