Gondwanax paraisensis fossil ... reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Named Gondwanax paraisensis, opens new tab, the four-legged reptile ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient crocodile-like reptile that once roamed the lands and waters of Brazil. The fossils, found in ... preserved limbs. Fossil skull of ...

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology about Traskasaura sandrae, named in his honour.

Of the almost 15,000 different kinds of reptile ... found clustered in a group in a hibernaculum implies that this ancient species was social, which has never before been seen in the fossil ...

the new fossil is a freshwater smelt belonging to the order Osmerifiromes, the first of its kind to be found in Australia. While they are poorly represented in the fossil record, species in this ...

Fossil of New Reptile Species Found in Brazil Sheds Light on Rise of Dinosaurs By Sergio Queiroz and Diego Vara SAO JOAO DO POLESINE, Brazil (Reuters) -Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery ...

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, opens new tab, the four-legged reptile species was roughly ... In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in ...

Named Gondwanax paraisensis, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the ... when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.