A remarkable new ichthyosaur species unearthed in Portugal is rewriting the story of Jurassic marine life and evolution.

Throughout the evolutionary history of life on earth, there have been some pretty strange creatures. If you tried to make a creature as strange as a platypus, for example, you just can’t think of ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizarre animals: a branching marine worm named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi that lives inside sea sponges and reproduces in a ...

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

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 ...

The T.rex Discovery Centre is ready to welcome visitors back for another season, opening its doors on Saturday, May 17.

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

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

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

THE SEVEN INCH VERTEBRAE BELONGED TO ONE OF THE LARGEST MARINE REPTILES IN THE PREHISTORIC WORLD, WHICH LIVED ABOUT 66 MILLION YEARS AGO. BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE BONE, RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE ...

As Fischer and the team will report on Thursday, 01 May, at 11:25 CEST, they combined data on the phylogenetic relationships of hundreds of marine reptile lineages to analyze how extinctions were ...