Researchers just discovered a 66-million-year-old sea lizard in a phosphate mine near Casablanca, Morocco. The Khinjaria ...

Did you know that before the rise of the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex and the cunning Velociraptor, there were a species of prehistoric reptiles that ruled the earth between the Permian and Triassic ...

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

Until 1842, no one had heard of the word ‘dinosaur’. But when acclaimed anatomist Richard Owen grouped three prehistoric animals with curious features in common, he changed the way the world thought ...

Both crocodiles and dinosaurs belong to a group called archosaurs and share a common ancestor that lived around 250 million years ago. However, crocodiles have changed very little in the last 200 ...

Barbaturex morrisoni-- "Morrison's Bearded King" -- lived in an ecosystem with a diversity of both herbivorous and carnivorous mammals during a warm age in the earth's history 36 to 40 million ...

Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide ... the flattened pterosaurs from most other sites around the world look like prehistoric roadkill. The Araripe fossils have enabled ...

Chunks of sandstone were chipped away as they searched for prehistoric clues ... something that isn’t present in predators. The reptiles also have “rectangular-shaped” osteoderms on their ...

Chilean scientists have announced the discovery of the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era "winged lizard" known ... found in Gondwana, the prehistoric supercontinent ...