Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

When you picture an ancient crocodile from millions of years ago, you probably imagine a low-slung, scaly water predator ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

A study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes the smallest rhynchosaur fossil ever recorded from the ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

A BIZARRE ancient sea creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth has been uncovered. The creature’s mouth was so ...

On Easton’s South 25th street, fish, snakes and lizards coexist in a harmonious, humid ecosystem. “There’s not a lot of us ...