At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...

The remains of an 85-million-year-old reptile — the oldest fossils ever found in Israel — were identified in the Arava Desert. Some 30 fossils belonging to the Elasmosaurus, a large carnivorous ...

(CN) — Pterosaur fossils are relatively rare. Fossils that contain more than mere fragments of their thin, fragile bones are even rarer. That makes the discovery of a 100 million-year-old pterosaur ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a colossal marine reptile that may be the largest ever to have roamed Earth's oceans. The newly identified species, described in a study published in ...

A fossil unearthed in the badlands of Alberta, Canada, has offered a rare glimpse into the interactions between ancient reptiles that lived over 76 million years ago. Researchers studying the remains ...

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 ...

For 24 years, a nearly complete ichthyosaur skeleton gathered dust in a Canadian museum, overlooked amid thousands of fossils ...

The fossil of a new species of Jurassic reptile, understood to be an ancient ancestor to lizards and snakes, has been discovered on the Isle of Skye. An international team of researchers, which ...