Remains of ancient reptile are found
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Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of a short-necked plesiosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile the size of a bus, that they believe is the first complete skeleton ever found.
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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered.
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Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
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Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.
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The earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles is found in  rocks dating back 315 million years.
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The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a  "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic  graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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The fossil of a big-eyed, fishlike reptile that lived 100 million years ago was discovered in a box that had been stashed away in a Canadian lab for 25 years.
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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
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Scientists have unearthed the remains of a perfectly preserved 130 million-year-old new species of dinosaur which provide a first-ever look at how the prehistoric creatures slept.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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Scientists from the  United States and Argentina have recovered the fossil skeleton  of a young plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that lived some 70  million years ago -- in Antarctica, institutes from both  countries said on Monday.
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Fossilized remains show the gigantic, birdlike dinosaur lived 70 million years ago and reached 26 feet in length.
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PITTSBURGH: A geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
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Paleontologists say they have discovered the fossil remains of a duck-size dinosaur species, previously unknown to science, that died while catching some z's.