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

A fossilized egg unearthed in Antarctica has rewritten the narrative of ancient marine reptiles and their reproduction. This ...

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

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur — an ancient flying reptile — with a wing span ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

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Feces, vomit and fossilized food from inside stomachs have provided new clues into how dinosaurs rose to dominate Earth, a ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

An individual plant or animal fossil is, even by itself, a massive chance to look into the history of our world and its ...