A reptile with a curved beak capable of tearing apart pieces of meat, and “hands” with long fingers and sharp, curved claws, ideal for grasping branches. This is Venetoraptor gassenae of the ...
Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide above the gray Pacific, far beyond the rollers breaking on the shore of Point Reyes, California. They flap their wings slowly for a few beats ...
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs ...
A few years ago, Maria McNamara was invited to Brussels by fellow paleontologist Pascal Godefroit and presented with an intriguing opportunity. At the time, they were collaborating on a study of ...
A newly discovered species of ancient amphibian ancestor that lived around 270 million years ago has been named after Kermit the Frog. Scientists analysed the remains of an inch-long fossilised ...
Aetosaurs are a reptile species that lived during the Triassic Period. The recent identification of fossils from a heavily armored ancient crocodile ancestor species, known as aetosaurs, provides ...
A new species of pterosaur was discovered from a period and location that came as a "complete surprise" to the team of ...
These ancient dart-shaped fish called gar have genomes that change about three times slower than other vertebrates. By Laura Baisas | Published Mar 5, 2024 1:12 PM EST The alligator gar is an ...
Paleontologists have unearthed a new species of pterosaur in a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Mar. 21, 2024 — Scientists have explored the puzzling world of rays that lived 150 million years ago and discovered a previously hidden diversity -- including a new ray species. This study ...
Students at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg are getting a chance to study fossils discovered by a pair of teachers ...
Jan. 10, 2024 — Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ... 'Juvenile T.