Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Using a novel method of geographical analysis, paleontologists inferred how archosauromorphs dispersed following one of the most impactful climate events...

Mar 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of proterochampsid archosauriform has been identified from an almost complete fossilized hindlimb found in southern Brazil. Artistic...

Jan 23, 2025 by News Staff

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems for approximately 160 million years, but their biogeographic origin remains poorly understood. The...

Nov 27, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in central Europe to reconstruct...

Oct 2, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of silesaurid being named Gondwanax paraisensis has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in Southern Brazil. Gondwanax...

Jul 15, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists in the United States have described a new genus and species of extinct crocodile relative based on a partially articulated skeleton found...

Jun 20, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of gracilisuchid reptile from the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in the Santa Maria Formation in Brazil. Artistic...

Feb 8, 2024 by News Staff

The early dinosaurs were faster and more dynamic than their competitors, according to a study led by University of Bristol researcher Amy Shipley. By adopting...

Dec 5, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pseudosuchia is a group of archosaurian reptiles, defined as all species more closely related to crocodylians than to birds. Living representatives of...

Oct 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in India have identified a new genus and species of proterosuchid reptile from both new and historically collected specimens. Life reconstruction...

Aug 21, 2023 by News Staff

Saurosuchus galilei, a large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaur that lived in South America 230 million years ago (Late Triassic epoch), was thought to...

Jul 26, 2023 by News Staff

Mambachiton fiandohana lived in what is now Madagascar during the Middle-Late Triassic transition, around 235 million years ago — the time of the...

Jun 8, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using whole-genome sequencing and bioinformatic analysis, scientists provide the first evidence of facultative parthenogenesis in a crocodilian —...

May 22, 2023 by News Staff

Taking someone else’s visual perspective marks an evolutionary shift in the formation of advanced social cognition. It enables using others’ attention...

Mar 7, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists at the Indian Institute of Technology have described a surprising new genus and species of crocodile-like reptile from fossils found in...

Feb 13, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Aetosaurs are quadrupedal, heavily-armored reptiles in the extinct order Aetosauria. Their name means ‘eagle lizard,’ and comes from the fact that...

Nov 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil reptile that lived during the Late Triassic epoch in southern Brazil. Life reconstruction of Stenoscelida...

Jun 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have found a fossilized egg within another egg — a condition known as ovum-in-ovo — of a titanosaurid dinosaur in central India....

May 5, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Maehary bonapartei is considered to be the most basal of the evolutionary lineage that gave rise to pterosaurs. (A) location map of the Linha São Luiz...

Feb 10, 2022 by News Staff

The pseudosuchian archosaur Mambawakale ruhuhu is among the larger-headed archosaurs from the Middle to Late Triassic. Life reconstruction of Mambawakale...