Long after the dinosaurs disappeared from Earth around 66 million years ago, some remarkable reptile lineages continued to survive and evolve. While modern reptiles are not all direct descendants of ...

For millions of years, through the Triassic and the Jurassic that followed, large dinosaurs kept such forests open and sunlit down to their trunks by feeding and trampling on plants. A sunny stand of ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young Riley Black | Science Correspondent Fossils ...

Learn more about some of the most unique dinosaurs, prehistoric reptiles, and flying reptiles discovered in 2024. 2024 was a busy year for dinosaur discoveries. New research from around the world ...

About 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period, a large proportion of species on Earth rapidly became extinct.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This article is more than 2 years old. Extinct species are ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most boas, which are a type of large, non-venomous ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...