During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

An international team of researchers, including palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), has discovered a new ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a ...

A new study reveals that ocean acidification, triggered by a massive carbon dioxide surge from volcanic activity during the ...

A previously unknown reptile species with a striking skin crest has been identified by Dutch paleontologist Stephan Spiekman ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...