Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians, plus new niches. The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids ...

The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their ... In other words, we now have a complete sequence of evolution from early pterosaurs to Dearc, to the first darwinopterans ...

As these early reptiles adapted to new lifestyles ... One of the most remarkable discoveries that helped to shed light on this evolution was the finding of Tetrapodophis amplectus, a four-legged ...

The findings of the study were published in the journal Evolution. To answer questions about the evolution of marine reptiles, the researchers needed access to a variety of different specimens from ...

New study documents evolution of fast-growing, fish-eating herring in Baltic Sea Dec 23, 2024 The genomic journey of modern and archaic humans may be older than we thought ...

“Vellbergia has a unique set of features that are common to other, more primitive reptiles as well as characters usually found in lepidosaurs, showing us that the evolutionary scenario for the ...

An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs. The complete specimen discovered in Germany finally shows how now extinct ...

In the course of their evolution, the flight capabilities of pterosaurs were improved. Whereas most early forms had still rather short wings and a long tail, the derived subgroup of ...

A new study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur. Joined by its newly discovered relatives, Pterodactylus's 'family' now encompasses tiny flaplings, a host of ...