Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest ...

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...

Fossilized skin impressions uncovered in central Germany are now regarded as the oldest known evidence of reptile skin.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered mummified skin that is older than the dinosaurs. The skin, which they say likely belonged to a reptile, is estimated to come from the Paleozoic era, between 541 million to ...

A collection of fossilised fragments of skin are the oldest ever found. The 300-million-year-old fossils belonged to a crocodile-like reptile and could help us understand how skin evolved. It is rare ...