Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ancient animals ...

A newly discovered pterosaur fossil is shedding light on the evolutionary journey of these ancient flying reptiles. This complete specimen, named Skiphosoura bavarica, provides crucial insights into ...

Viviparity, the live-bearing mode of reproduction, has evolved independently in several vertebrate lineages, including squamate reptiles and seahorses. In reptiles, evolutionary transitions from ...

Fossilized skin impressions uncovered in central Germany are now regarded as the oldest known evidence of reptile skin.

Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. (Gabriel Ugueto via SWNS) By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that ...

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, ...

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 ...

Archosauromorphs walked - across a 10,000-mile hellscape - so dinosaurs could run. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, archosauromorphs, early ancestors of dinosaurs ...

Scientists have generated the genome assemblies of two hidden-neck turtles, unpublished until now. The results, which revealed a new three-dimensional structure of the genome within the phylogenetic ...

The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their close relatives, the dinosaurs. The largest of these reached 10 m in wingspan, but early forms were generally limited to around 2 ...