A 205-million-year-old fossil discovered near Bristol has been confirmed as the oldest known modern lizard, pushing back the ...

New analyses confirm that the fossil is closely related to modern anguimorphs, such as monitors and anguids. This research solidifies its place within the Squamata group, the larger reptilian order ...

A 205-million-year-old fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, was confirmed as the oldest modern lizard, shifting Squamata ...

Collectors might want to beware when bidding on dinosaurs at auction houses. A recent trio of Wyoming dinosaurs sold for more than $15 million at ...

She works at Great Basin and Death Valley, Lake Mead and Santa Monica Mountains national recreation areas, and Tule Springs ...

The team of scientists also believes the group of individuals they studied was distantly related to another individual who lived 150 miles away.

Scientists have discovered about thirty rocks containing dinosaur fossils on Port Island, a remote location in northern Hong Kong. The discovery comes just two months after officials' announcement of ...

All three skeletons - two Allosaurus and one Stegosaurus - were excavated from the same site in Carbon County, Wyoming and ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

China is a Jurassic treasure trove going big with fossil discoveries. But will dinosaurs have the same pulling power as ...