The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their ... In other words, we now have a complete sequence of evolution from early pterosaurs to Dearc, to the first darwinopterans ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Researchers from McGill University have made an unexpected discovery in Mexican waters. Two new species of reptiles, ...

The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids (reptiles and birds). Mammals branched off from other amniotes very early. Several mammalian characteristics are ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down ...

These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

"By studying animals like Marmoretta, we can infer what was happening during divergences in the evolution of reptiles." "Looking at small bones is just as important as looking at a femur that's a ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

Tattoo addict Spo transformed his entire body into a "eunuch slave" and "reptile" through the use of radical body modifications including implants on his head. | TAG24 ...

Tiny reptile fossils are revealing more about life in the UK during the time of the dinosaurs. The Middle Jurassic, which lasted from around 174 to 161 million years ago, was a crucial time in the ...