The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It looked like an odd lizard with a bulky body and only the skeletal precursor of a shell, but scientists say 240 million-year-old fossils unearthed in a quarry in southern ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

Leatherback sea turtles start life the same size as other sea turtles. As they age, however, they grow progressively larger. These giants of the reptile world are relics from the Late Triassic and the ...

Led by palaeontologist Dr Stephan Spiekman, a new Emmy Noether Research Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is launching at the Stuttgart Natural History Museum and the University of ...