A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been a new genus and species ...

Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

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

But the discovery suggests a similar reptile had prehistoric roots in the region. Bourque, a fossil preparator in ... described the new species in a paper published last month in the Journal ...

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

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

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

“The fossil evidence suggests dinosaurs had at least small parasites,” said Jarzembowski. “Thorny-headed worms can be found ...

John Long, Flinders University; Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, Uppsala University, and Per Ahlberg, Uppsala University ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles ... in the DNA of living species to estimate their evolutionary ...