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An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Tyler Stone BA '19, art and cinema; see his website tylerstoneart.wordpress.com

Ancient marine predator had a built-in float

Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest...

CT scan of coprolite specimen, BRSMG Cf15546, in different views, showing tuberculated bone (blue) from a fish skull, and two vertebrae from the tail of the marine reptile Pachystropheus, in yellow and green. Credit: Marie Cueille, and Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol

Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago

A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman. Credit: Virginia Tech

New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered

Kopidosaurus perplexus skull in left lateral view. Credit: Simon Scarpetta

Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species

This illustration shows a reconstruction of Ambopteryx in a glide. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

These two bird-sized dinosaurs evolved the ability to glide, but weren’t...

A crocodile next to a mastodon of the genus Anancus and primitive horses of the genus Hipparion in a similar environment to what could have been Valencia six million years ago. Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC)

African crocodiles lived in Spain six million years ago

Teeth of a large dinosaur, possibly Metriacanthosauridae, from the Liuhuanggou site in the southern Junggar basin. Scale: 1 cm. Credit: University of Tübingen

Tooth marks and lost teeth offer insights into dinosaur feeding behavior

Reconstruction of Morganucodon (left) and Kuehneotherium (right) hunting in Early Jurassic Wales 200 million years ago. Credit: Original painting by John Sibbick, 2013. Copyright: Pam Gill

Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles

An artist's impression of Leptostomia begaaensis Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth

Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other

Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona

Artist's rendering of Gavialimimus almaghribensis, a newly discovered species of mosasaur that ruled the seas of what is now Morocco some 72 to 66 million years ago. Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura

Paleontologists identify new species of mosasaur

Micro-CT reconstruction of Mysteriomorphus pelevini Credit: D. Peris & R. Kundrata et al. / Scientific Reports

Scientists reconstruct beetles from the Cretaceous

Fossil and life reconstruction of Juravenator, a small carnivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic of Germany. The arrow points to the sensory organ, which are found on polygonal scales covering the lower part of the tail. Credit: Jake Baardse.

Carnivorous dinosaur had crocodile-like senses

Naked prehistoric monsters

Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted

Artist's impression of Oksoko avarsan dinosaurs (credit: Michael Skrepnick)

Lost digits point to spread of parrot-like dinosaur

Colobops noviportensis

A timeline on the evolution of reptiles : 75-year-old belief in...

Altmühl specimen of Archaeopteryx, showing the dorsal surface of the right wing.

Dinosaur feather study debunked

A skeletal mount of the mosasaur 'Gnathomortis stadtmani' at BYU’s Eyring Science Center. USU Eastern paleontologist Josh Lively named the giant marine lizard that roamed the oceans of North America toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Courtesy BYU.

Jaws of death: Paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard

Artist’s impression of Spinosaurus. Credit: Davide Bonadonna

Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water

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