Called osteoderms, the chain mail-like plates may have helped some species adapt to Australia’s harsh environment ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

Australian goannas adapted remarkably well to harsh climates. Scientists looking for hidden bone structures in lizards may be ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil from half a billion years ago has turned our understanding of spider evolution upside down.

Mirasaura provides the first direct evidence that complex skin appendages appeared early during reptile evolution and are not ...