The fossil’s features, a mix of modern and prehistoric traits, reinforces previous suggestions that amphibians’ evolution was complex, said Marc Jones, a curator of fossil reptiles at the ...

The newly-found fossils are 209 million years old and include pterosaurs, primitive frogs and lizard-like reptiles ...

Researchers have described a new carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania. The 300-million-year-old remarkably preserved fossil is one of few amphibians displaying evidence of a land-based ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

It has long been known that various amphibians, including frogs and toads, lived during this time, and even much further back ...

A newly-discovered fossil amphibian survived the dry seasons between monsoons by using its oddly-shaped head to burrow into riverbeds. These strange fossils were given a name in the Shoshone ...

Discovering new origins. While scientists determined the fossil to be part of a group called temnospondyls, primitive amphibian relatives that lived for over 200 million years, the unique features ...

Carnegie Museum of Natural History researchers have described a new carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania. The 300-million-year-old remarkably preserved fossil is one of few amphibians ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record. Chihiro Kai. December 12, 2024. Get our Newsletter!

The fossil’s features, a mix of modern and prehistoric traits, reinforces previous suggestions that amphibians’ evolution was complex, said Marc Jones, a curator of fossil reptiles at the ...