Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

The announcement of Breugnathair elgolensis is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of work, after an international ...

Lead author Dr Roger Benson says the fossil may show that snake ancestors were very different to what we expected ...

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes.

The specimen, an extinct Jamaican giant galliwasp, a reptile which the team named Celeste, was last documented as seen in the ...

Sombrero ground lizards (Pholidoscelis corvinus) are endemic to Sombrero Island, north of Anguilla, which means they're found nowhere else on the planet. Jenny Daltry / Re:wild / Fauna & Flora A ...

How can we guess the size of an extinct animal when all that remains are a few scattered bones? A study conducted by ...

By Keith Anthony Fabro The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores – but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...