Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

Usually, real-world paleontology is a lot less wiggly; the nature of a fossil is generally set in stone (puns!). Sometimes, a particular fossi.

Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago ...

Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. ... Indeed, they soon found fossils of giant turtles and ...

Two ASU paleontologists have discovered a new prehistoric sea turtle. The nearly 4-feet-long fossilized shell was unearthed ...

A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for decades. An expert says there could be countless more undiscovered animal ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

The first fossilized prehistoric pregnant turtle was found in the badlands of Alberta, Canada, in 1999 and described in scientific literature last year.

The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...

Teeth from extinct species like Otodus obliquus (an ancestor of the legendary Megalodon) are commonly found in New Jersey’s ...