Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

The neck has 32 separate vertebrae — longer than the creature’s body and tail combined,” said a study published by Cambridge ...

The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Pterosaurs which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods first evolved to take to the air in ...

Scientists have uncovered that fish biofluorescence a captivating ability to glow in vivid colors has ancient roots stretching back over 100 million years. This trait evolved independently in reef ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of early reptiles called archosauromorphs not only survived but thrived ...

The end-Permian mass extinction wiped out 81% of marine life and over half of land-based species. But not everything perished. Among the survivors were the archosauromorphs, small early reptiles that ...

Triassic Reptiles Traveled a 10,000-Mile-Long Dead Zone, Leading to Dinosaur Evolution Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests.