Sometimes it's hard to imagine what the Earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be even harder to go all the way to a time before dinosaurs ...

A tiny fossil found on a Devon beach reveals secrets. Scientists from the University of Bristol studied the ancient discovery. The research was published today in Nature. The fossil belongs to the ...

A paleontological discovery on the Scottish Isle of Skye reveals the fossilized remains of a Jurassic reptile with a surprising physique, combining characteristics of lizards and snakes. This ...

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FILE - Tegus, native to Argentina, are an invasive species in Georgia. The lizards do quite well in the Georgia wild, eating eggs the eggs of many native species like quail and Georgia's state reptile ...

BAR HARBOR − Famous for their sluggishness, turtles have been slow to give up the secrets of their evolution and place on the evolutionary tree. For decades, paleontologists who study fossils and ...

Two tiny new species that inhabited part of what is now the American south some 100 million years ago have been discovered by paleontologists. Two tiny new species that inhabited part of what is now ...