At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs.

Some 66 million years ago, a city bus-sized terrifying predator prowled a prehistoric river in what is now North Dakota. This ...

The fossil record is crucial for understanding the origins and diversification of amphibians and reptiles. New discoveries ...

A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers. This is shown by new research based on analyses of a mosasaur tooth found in ...

Scientists in America have unearthed fossils from a number of animals, many of them previously unknown, dating back to the dinosaur era. The newly-found fossils, including those from a pterosaur, ...

Marine palaeoecosystems of the past are intricately linked with the diverse assemblages of fossil reptiles especially in the Mesozoic. Recent work has shown a much greater diversity of such Mesozoic ...

Giant anacondas grew large early and kept that size for millions of years, surviving climate shifts and habitat changes ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even since the time of giants, but paleontologists turned to some of the smallest reptile fossils to reveal the power of these storms. While the bigger ...

Learn how anacondas are defying expectations of reptile experts by keeping their ancient body size despite drastic ...

Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every once in a while, however, these imprints of times past are found by ...