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

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

The specimen, an extinct Jamaican giant galliwasp, a reptile which the team named Celeste, was last documented as seen in the ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of ...

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

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

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.

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

The fossil of a new species of Jurassic reptile, understood to be an ancient ancestor to lizards and snakes, has been ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of ...

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