Paleontologists identified a new ancient reptile appendage. And, how fast did dinosaurs run? A longstanding equation for dino ...

Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

A dinosaur was stolen from a Temple Hobby Lobby, and police are asking the public for help identifying the suspects who drove ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a ...

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical dragon.

Is it possible that feathers weren’t the first extravagant skin appendages in reptiles? The recent discovery of Mirasaura grauvogeli’s remarkable dorsal crest has upended long-held assumptions about ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...