During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.” ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical ...

A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither ...

An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal Nature showing that early reptiles from the Triassic period had unique structures growing from its skin that ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...