Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

Years ago, Jason Bourque was digging through storage at the Florida Museum of Natural History when he came across a ...

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.

Scientists named it Wautaugategu formidus. The name “Wautauga” comes from a nearby forest. “Formidus”, Latin for “warm”, nods ...