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

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

With an incredible history and mysterious extinction, these fascinating creatures continue to puzzle scientists to this day.

A new study has unveiled that a famous 280-million-year-old fossil may not be all it seemed. Discovered in 1931, the fossil was long believed to represent ancient soft tissues of a reptile. But upon ...

The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at the same time our favorite dinosaurs were roaming on land. Long-necked ...

"It's a similar strategy that some small mammals used in the Triassic as well, so it certainly seems to have its benefits." "As we continue to investigate early reptiles, we'll have a much better ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...