Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A Ph.D. student recently found the counterpart of the original fossil at the ...

The fossil of a new species of Jurassic reptile, understood to be an ancient ancestor to lizards and snakes, has been discovered on the Isle of Skye. An international team of researchers, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the ...

The origins of snakes have baffled scientists for decades. How did these limbless, slithering predators evolve from their distant lizard ancestors? A remarkable discovery on the Isle of Skye, Scotland ...

Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like ...

A "hook-toothed" reptile that lived in the Scottish Highlands around 167 million years ago fed on early mammals and young dinosaurs, say scientists. The Jurassic predator - one of the oldest fossil ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

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Bolg amondol raids an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest in an artistic reconstruction of how the species may have looked and behaved. Cullen Townsend A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of ...

Fossils of a large omnivorous multichisel-toothed lizard have been discovered recently in the Late Cretaceous strata dating back more than 70 million years in the Ganzhou Basin of East China's Jiangxi ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the fossil is considered to be “extraordinary.” In May, rising senior and ...