The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

Scientists have long wondered how mammals, including humans, evolved to walk with their legs under their bodies instead of ...

The sprawling-upright transition across mammal evolution, showing changes in posture and limb bone shape. Magdalen Mercado, ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

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

A prehistoric lizard the size of a raccoon has just been identified in southern Utah. This specimen, named Bolg amondol, ...

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

A study shows that turtles use both genetic signals and mechanical forces to form the scales on their heads, revealing a ...

Scientists confirmed a new dinosaur-era lizard discovered in Utah, nearly two decades after it was excavated and placed in ...

Named after a goblin prince from J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit," Bolg amondol was identified from tiny pieces of skull, limbs, ...