The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of ... The fossil specimen included a partial skull, four vertebrae ...

Recently, a new species, named Melkamter pateko, has been unearthed in the Chubut province of Argentina. Interestingly, this new discovery has pushed back the timeline of pterosaur evolution by ...

Researchers from the Kuwait-Polish Archaeological Mission (KPAM) working at the Bahra 1 site in the Al-Subiyah desert of ...

A University of Bristol study has shed light on how lizards and snakes—the most diverse group of land vertebrates with nearly ...

The never-seen-before teeth and jaws of the ancient reptile, Threordatoth chasmatos, distinguishes it from other ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve ...

Recent archaeological work in northern Kuwait has uncovered a fascinating discovery: a clay head that represents the culture ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur — an ancient flying reptile — with a wing span of about ... been one of the largest fliers in its ecosystem. Its skull ...

Burr holes are small holes that a neurosurgeon makes in the skull. Burr holes are used to help relieve pressure on the brain when fluid, such as blood, builds up and starts to compress brain tissue. A ...

A standoff was on Thursday witnessed at the Busia border after a human skull was discovered inside a passenger bus. According to eyewitnesses, the bus, which was coming from Rwanda and headed for ...

In one of the chunks he found a paleontological El Dorado: the skull of a part-reptile, part-mammal tritylodontoid, a transitional creature that lived about 165 million years ago when mammals were ...