Meet Finn, the reptile skull named by a six-year-old competition winner. Annabelle, from Birmingham, named the skull after her friend Finn and the fact that the reptile had a fin that it used to swim.

Surprisingly, the newly discovered pterosaur shares characteristics with advanced pterodactyloids but is significantly older.

A new scientific study led by researchers at The University of Manchester has re-examined a series of fossil skulls from the UK, providing new insights into two species of extinct marine reptiles. Dr ...

3. Dermal skull roof or dermatocranium A shield of membrane or dermal bone covering the top and sides of the head and extending down to the jaw rims, with a marginal row of teeth. In amphibians & stem ...

Some 200 million years ago in what is now Warwickshire, a dolphin-like reptile died and sank to the bottom of the sea. The creature's burial preserved its skull in stunning detail - enabling ...

Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, notable for its unique teeth and jaw, found at a fossil ...

Of particular interest was a well-preserved skull and braincase revealing that these reptiles had good equilibrium and were likely agile, according to findings published in the journal Nature. With ...

pterosaurs and marine reptiles of the Mesozoic - the living crocodilians, birds & squamates (lizards and snakes). They are characterized by the two fenestrae or openings in the temporal region of the ...