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

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

Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

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

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

Scientists have identified a prehistoric monkey lizard species, revealing unique crest features and early reptile evolution.

A study of a fossilized pterosaur from China has confirmed that some of these prehistoric creatures had a surprisingly varied ...

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

The Barbados threadsnake was previously featured on a list of 4,800 plant, animal and fungi species described as ‘lost to ...

“Mirasaura lived in trees in one of the first forests that emerged after the great mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic ...

Capybaras are well-known for holding the title of world’s biggest rodents. Lesser-known qualities of these massive rodents ...