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 ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

Some fossils are truly breathtaking. While paleontologists are used to finding scraps of bones, broken teeth and hazy ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

A previously unknown reptile species with a striking skin crest has been identified by Dutch paleontologist Stephan Spiekman ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a ...

Is it possible that feathers weren’t the first extravagant skin appendages in reptiles? The recent discovery of Mirasaura grauvogeli’s remarkable dorsal crest has upended long-held assumptions about ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

A reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus Gabriel Ugueto. No one knew why so many immense reptiles were bunched together. In the middle of the Nevada desert, in ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ...