Snakes were not always slithering creatures. Scientists have discovered that snakes descended from lizards with legs. Over ...

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 ...

Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians, plus new niches. The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids ...

A newly discovered pterosaur fossil is shedding light on the evolutionary journey of these ancient flying reptiles. This complete specimen, named Skiphosoura bavarica, provides crucial insights into ...

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 ...

Skiphosoura represents a critical step beyond the Darwinopterus. Its head and neck resemble the more advanced pterodactyloids ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived ...

Revealed by a German fossil, the newly described species sheds light on questions that scientists have been puzzling over for ...

This remarkable discovery, made by an international team of scientists led by Dr. David Hone of Queen Mary University of ...

Found in southern Germany, the fossil is notable for being nearly complete and preserved in three dimensions—a rarity in ...