At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

After dinosaurs went extinct, South America was dominated by large, crocodile-like reptiles called sebecids. Measuring up to 20 feet in length and bearing rows of sharp, serrated teeth, sebecids ...

(Reuters) - About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, walked along a riverbank on a lush coastal plain and lowered its ...

Human and animal fossils are a window into the past that give us a connection between the present and the past. Scientists dug up a specimen that is so old and unique that it nudges back the origins ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...

The case of a ‘fishy pterosaur’ is the latest example of mistaken identity involving these extraordinary flying reptiles.

Around 110 million years ago, two small pterosaurs about the size of modern seagulls were flying over a lake or river, likely ...

(CN) — Pterosaur fossils are relatively rare. Fossils that contain more than mere fragments of their thin, fragile bones are even rarer. That makes the discovery of a 100 million-year-old pterosaur ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A remarkable reptile-like creature with an unusual jaw that lived more than 200 million years ago has been described as a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the ...