New insights into an ancient swimming reptile are more than skin deep. An analysis of a 240-million-year-old fossil, published August 29 in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, offers clues to how a ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

A fragment of ancient reptile skin discovered in an Oklahoma cave is changing what scientists know about early life on land. Dated to nearly 300 million years ago, this fossilized skin is now ...

Researchers have identified a 3D fragment of fossilized skin that is at least 21 million years than previously described skin fossils. The skin, which belonged to an early species of Paleozoic reptile ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known skin fossils, dating back long before the dinosaurs. The samples, found in a cave in Oklahoma, USA, show that reptile scales haven’t changed much in the ...