A new study of modern reptiles will improve our ability to identify the diets of ancient animals, including dinosaurs.

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why they evolved in different groups of mammals ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such ...

Tritylodontids were a mammal-like reptile group of herbivores the size of rabbits and hares. They were halfway in the evolution process from reptiles to mammals. The Ono site is the fourth in ...

These animals thus had a mode of locomotion intermediate between reptiles and mammals. Although gorgonopsians disappeared long before the appearance of dinosaurs, their evolution played a significant ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus ...

A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...

A saber-toothed predator from over 270 million years ago has been unearthed on Mallorca. The fossil represents the ...