These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

A new scientific study led by researchers at The University of Manchester has re-examined a series of fossil skulls from the UK, providing new insights into two species of extinct marine reptiles. Dr ...

The fossil of a marine reptile discovered in 2021 in the municipality of Marinha Grande is of a new species of ichthyosaur (fish-lizards) and was the first identified in the Iberian Peninsula, ...

Skull of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus platydon, the first ever discovered. Mary Anning's brother Joseph found the skull in 1810 and Mary found parts of the neck a year later. Our collection ...

Researchers just discovered a 66-million-year-old sea lizard in a phosphate mine near Casablanca, Morocco. The Khinjaria ...

This animal is Anhanguera, one of the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. While its skull is in a display case in the Museum, thanks to virtual reality, for the first time ever we can ...

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Animation of a bird skull, showing muscle forces ... a variety of fossils and skeletons from modern-day birds and related reptiles like alligators. Using the data from these images, they then ...

Though the massive skull he purchased belonged to a mosasaur, which is a marine reptile and not a dinosaur, Invernizzi prizes the ancient animal head. It now sits in the living room of his home ...

A massive fossil skull, retrieved from a cliff near Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset, UK, has stunned paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts alike. Belonging to a pliosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile ...

The veteran naturalist investigates the discovery of a lifetime - the skull of a pliosaur, one of the most ferocious Jurassic predators ever known. This prehistoric marine reptile ruled the seas 150 ...

Yet birds differ from their reptile ancestors in many important ways ... which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of their skulls. New research from the University of Chicago and ...