When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes.

The announcement of Breugnathair elgolensis is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of work, after an international ...

Scientists were left stunned by the hook-toothed, 167-million-year-old fossil which blends reptile characteristics.

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Lead author Dr Roger Benson says the fossil may show that snake ancestors were very different to what we expected ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even the king cobra is "vulnerable." More than 1 in 5 species of reptiles worldwide are threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new assessment of thousands of ...

Did you know that one-fifth of the world’s reptiles are at risk of extinction? And amphibians are declining by about 4% every year, according to the United States Geological Survey. Experts say the No ...

A new study by the Zoological Society of London has found that 19% — nearly one in five — of the world’s 10,000 species of reptiles are threatened with extinction. The study, which has been printed in ...

A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.

Scientists discovered Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae, a tiny ancient lizard with oversized teeth, changing the story of lizard ...

Komodo dragons outlived giant reptile peers through isolation and lucky breaks. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Extinction wiped out their closest family members as well as most ...