Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin, had been combing the mudflats of Blue Anchor when they discovered the fossil fragments ... of the jawbone of a giant marine reptile that likely measured ...

It was capable of growing beyond 30 feet in length and weighed around 10 tons—a mature elephant plus a sedan car.

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

Amateur palaeontologists have found the ... the origin of reptiles and other land-based creatures by 40 million years. Builder Craig Eury and winemaker John Eason were fossil hunting near ...