A Sahara Desert tour comes with its own challenges from heat, sun, and a lack of water. There are also a whole host of ...

A new species of giant flying reptile has been found in the sands of the Sahara, a new study says. But the 95-million-year-old pterosaur likely preferred life on the ground, spending most of its ...

3. They are believed to be close cousins of dinosaurs who evolved on a separate branch of the reptile family tree. 4. Pterosaurs did not leave descendants but only fossils. 5.

With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert, scientists have identified a new type of pterosaur (giant flying reptile or pterodactyl) that existed about 95 million years ago.

How ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved to live on land Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China recently discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur. But they also found something completely unexpected ...

These prehistoric ‘baby hands’ are not what you think An analysis of tiny, 8,000-year-old hand decorations in a Saharan rock shelter shows that they’re decidedly not human.

Researchers from University College London and the UK's Natural History Museum believe the very first dinosaurs could be hidden in some of the most challenging places to explore on Earth.

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery ...