Paleontologists in southwestern China have unearthed fossils of *Dinocephalosaurus orientalis*, a 240-million-year-old marine ...

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi ...

Ichthyosaurs represent a diverse clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles that rapidly adapted to fully aquatic lifestyles following the end-Permian mass extinction. Their streamlined, 'fish-like' body ...

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

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost certainly didn't roar. You might be surprised to hear that some scientists ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

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

It's important to distinguish them from marine reptiles like Mosasaurs and Plesiosaurs, which were not dinosaurs, even though they lived in the water during the same era. Image credits: Renesto S..

A fossilized skull of a massive amphibian has been discovered in a Texas quarry, and its appearance has sparked comparisons to an animated character from a beloved children’s film. Though the ...

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 ...