Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered direct evidence of what prehistoric flying reptiles, known as pterosaurs, actually ate. Two remarkable fossils dating back 182 million years have revealed ...

Some 247 million years ago, a bizarre, six-inch-long reptile crept down a branch, its prehensile tail and feet clutching the bark like a monkey, and its narrow, birdlike face scanning its surroundings ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired the ...

A near-complete skeleton found on the UK's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of ichthyosaur—a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the ancient oceans. The ...

One hundred and ten million years ago, a predator in what is now northeastern Brazil bit off more than it could chew. It swallowed two flying reptiles and four fish — then threw them up. That retch ...