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The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where ...

Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on the evolutionary tree. One of the newest examples is Labrujasuchus expectatus, a lightly built, ...

A trio of researchers uncovered a massive marine reptile with the scientific name Tylosaurus rex after a hefty amount of ...

Lizard bone armor evolved at least 13 separate times over 320 million years, and monitor lizards even re-grew it after losing ...

A newly identified mosasaur from Texas suggests that some ancient marine predators were larger, more powerful, and possibly ...

If you could travel back roughly 250 million years, you would not see the Earth you know today. Instead, you would arrive at ...

Like modern crocodiles, this bizarre ancient reptile was likely a carnivore, but otherwise it bears little resemblance to ...