This photo shows the fossilized cervical vertebra and overlaying osteoderms of the new archosaur species Mambachiton fiandohana. Credit: Sterling, et. al Researchers have described a new species of ...

Learn more about the animals you thought were dinosaurs, and the animal we thought wasn't a dinosaur, but actually is.

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Early members of the dinosaur–pterosaur clade Ornithodira are very rare in the fossil record, obscuring our understanding of the origins of this important group. Here, we describe an early ...

Wildlife in Antarctica conjures up images of penguins, seals and other animals who have adapted to survive in such a harsh, frozen environment. But researchers have made an unexpected discovery that ...

Paleontologists have identified more than 20 dinosaur and other vertebrate footprints on a rock wall in southwest China's ...

Researchers have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ancient creature in a discovery that sheds light on how a group of animals that includes dinosaurs and crocodiles survived the Earth's ...

Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of the first appearance of dinosaurs. With bony plates on its backbone, this archosaur fossil reveals that armor ...