A reptile with a curved beak capable of tearing apart pieces of meat, and “hands” with long fingers and sharp, curved claws, ideal for grasping branches. This is Venetoraptor gassenae of the ...
Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide above the gray Pacific, far beyond the rollers breaking on the shore of Point Reyes, California. They flap their wings slowly for a few beats ...
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile ...
A few years ago, Maria McNamara was invited to Brussels by fellow paleontologist Pascal Godefroit and presented with an intriguing opportunity. At the time, they were collaborating on a study of ...
Arjan Mann (right), a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist and former Peter Buck Fellow, and Calvin So (left), a doctoral student at George Washington University, holding the fossil skull of ...
Tanks of the Triassic: New crocodile ancestor identified. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 15, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 / 240318164517.htm ...
In recent years researchers have begun to piece together the intricate process by which feathers develop. Like scales, spines ...
Paleontologists have unearthed a new species of pterosaur in a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Other highlights include a Pterosaur fossil dating from around 145 million years ago, as well as two teeth from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A large Triceratops horn is also being sold with an estimate of ...
Jan. 10, 2024 — Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ... 'Juvenile T.
Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In a paper published ...
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes ...