“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

Fossilized footprints discovered in southeastern Australia, dating back approximately 355 million years, have forced scientists to rethink the timeline of reptile evolution. Detailed in a recent study ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptilelike animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-snouted ichthyosaur fossil found on England’s Jurassic Coast fills a missing chapter in marine reptile evolution. (CREDIT: ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating the body, and were used for courtship, display, deterrence of enemies and, ...

The sprawling-upright transition across mammal evolution, showing changes in posture and limb bone shape. The transition from sprawling (reptile-like) to more upright (parasagittal) posture and ...

MSRLSI copy gift of Dr. George R. Zug and signed by author VPAL copy gift of the author; signed by the author and inscribed for the NMNH Library "Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate ...

Maria McNamara receives funding from the European Research Council and Research Ireland. A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is ...

A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of marine reptiles in recent times. The almost complete skeleton of a ...