A 166-million-year-old reptile that lived during the time of the dinosaurs was believed to have swum in ancient lagoons, but ...

The sudden heat altered oceans' chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some other species.

It was capable of growing beyond 30 feet in length and weighed around 10 tons—a mature elephant plus a sedan car.

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, ...

A father and his 11-year-old daughter were in for a shock when they discovered a two-metre-long jawbone on a beach in Devon, south-west England, in 2020. They immediately alerted t ...

Tracks in Australia seem to be the earliest known prints of amniotes — a group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.

The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...

Before Texas was what it is known today, it was a vast sea full of marine reptiles. Now, one of those creatures has been found - its remains, that is - during construction work. St ...

The specimen, found in Guizhou Province, belonged to an aquatic reptile with a long, snake-like body and a dramatically extended neck—features that inspired comparisons to a Chinese dragon.