In a new episode of Popular Science’s Ask Us Anything podcast, we dig into the fossil record to see just how likely a venomous dinosaur would’ve been. Sarah Durn: It’s one of the most memorable scenes ...

When he shook hands with the amateur fossil hunter in 1988, Richard Hebda, head of botany at the Royal B.C. Museum, was not ...

Having a piece of dinosaur history meant visiting museums or joining a fossil dig site. But today, fossil collecting is no ...

Follow the process of locating and examining a reptile fossil and what it can reveal about the past. Breaking: Man who breached the perimeter of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence early Sunday was fatally ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ancient animals Jack Tamisiea During the Late Permian period more than 255 ...

Paleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in southern Brazil with the unearthing of a 2.5 cm skull belonging to a newborn prehistoric reptile, identified as part of the ancient species ...

One bright day in April 2023, Hannah Maddox drove 13 hours from Knoxville, Tennessee, to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research station in the Everglades National Park, near the southern bump of ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains of stomach content have been kept in Museu Câmara Cascudo at the ...

A new species of ancient "sword dragon" marine reptile has been discovered in a set of fossils found in England, according to researchers. Named Xiphodracon goldencapsis, the new species is an ...

A fossil unearthed along the coast of England was identified as a new species of a renowned “sword dragon” reptile that dominated the sea during the Jurassic Period. The nearly complete ichthyosaur ...

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