The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

The fossilized remains of the "seagull-sized" pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. The post ...

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

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

Wisdom teeth are the last teeth to develop, and typically appear between the ages of 18 and 24 years. They erupt through the gums behind the back molars of the upper and lower jaw, at the very ...

Richard Owen famously coined the term dinosaur in 1842, describing a long extinct group of “terrible lizards.” But not long before, William Buckland, a reader in geology at Oxford University at the ...

Lower socioeconomic status has been consistently linked to reduced life expectancy, creating another pathway through which missing teeth might affect longevity. Prevention strategies ...

Science breakthrough as fossil pushes back evolution timeline by 17 million years Scientists say new studies of fossilized jaw bones show that mammals began to evolve ...

With these unique back teeth, where these animals fit in the timeline of mammal evolution has been puzzling. Shuotheriids have previously been linked to a group called australosphenidans.

"Having this many teeth within the jaw at a given time is a unique feature among predatory reptiles, and only seen In the Komodo," noted Dr. Robert Reisz, co-author of the research paper.

Most other known reptiles have one or at most two replacement teeth in the jaw, and this includes most theropod dinosaurs. Perhaps the most surprising discovery was that the Komodo started to make ...