Paleontologist Victor Beccari was looking through the fossilized reptiles housed at London’s Natural History Museum when he ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient crocodile-like reptile that once roamed the lands and waters of Brazil. The fossils, found in a fossiliferous locality named "Linha Várzea ...

Fossil of new reptile species found in Brazil sheds light on rise of dinosaurs. By Sergio Queiroz and Diego Vara. October 14, 2024 6:44 PM UTC Updated October 14, 2024 Item 1 ...

Victor Beccari couldn't shake the feeling he had seen the fossil before: it was a slab of rock containing the impression of a ...

A team of paleontologists recently excavated something extraordinary in Utah: a 300-million-year-old fossil of some as-yet-unidentified species of reptile. Or amphibian. It’s unclear. Regardless ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a ...

The new species of mammal, Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch, found near Utah's Arches National Park, prompts new thinking on Earth's ancient super-continent Pangea. It was discovered almost by accident ...

A brand new species of ancient snake has been discovered in western Wyoming. The fossilized snake, thought to have lived some 38 million years ago, has been named Hibernophis breithaupti ...

Fossil of New Reptile Species Found in Brazil Sheds Light on Rise of Dinosaurs. More. Reuters. Fossils called Gondwanax paraisensis, a species that lived 237 million years ago and was a precursor ...

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.