A chance museum discovery has led paleontologists to identify a new species of ancient reptile, Sphenodraco scandentis, that ...

Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

The neck has 32 separate vertebrae — longer than the creature’s body and tail combined,” said a study published by Cambridge ...

The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

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During the Late Triassic, climatic conditions changed across the globe, leading to a general increase in warm and humid conditions outside the equatorial belt. This became an opportunity that allowed ...

Pterosaurs which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests. In a ...

Pterosaurs, which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests.

The first flying reptiles were more picky about where they lived than first realised, meaning that their fossils aren’t necessarily where they’re expected to be. Early pterosaurs loved temperate and ...