By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither ...

“Mirasaura lived in trees in one of the first forests that emerged after the great mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary,” noted palaeontologist Prof Dr Hans Sues from the National Museum ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a remarkable finding, this time the discovery of North America's oldest known ...

In short: A crest on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil seems to be a new type of appendage made of neither feathers nor hair. The creature may have used the crest for communication. What's ...

A remarkable reptile-like creature with an unusual jaw that lived more than 200 million years ago has been described as a new species. Evidence of the species, Threordatoth chasmatos, was ...

Summary Profiles a range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal species from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Eras, featuring such animals as allosaurus, diplodocus, and mosasaurus. Date 2014 Type ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 ...

The sweltering deserts of present day Nevada were once covered with water and home to an extinct crocodile relative. A team of scientists found this newly discovered species in the Triassic Era ...