This image provided by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs shows paleontology curator Spencer Lucas talking about Gordodon, a specialized plant-eating reptile, during an interview outside ...

Appearances can be deceiving. An ancient marine reptile that swam the seas long before the time of the dinosaurs sported a distinctive hammerhead jaw, along with two intimidating groups of teeth – ...

The world's first plant-eating marine reptile had wide jaw shaped like a hammerhead, and along the edge, it had peg-like teeth. Fossil of crocodile-sized reptile found, it lived 242 million years ago ...

Two years ago, when paleontologists first described the skeleton of the croc-sized marine reptile Atopodentatus unicus, they knew it was weird, but not this weird. New specimens of this Triassic ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

Newly-discovered fossils of the Triassic marine reptile Atopodentatus unicus have revealed that the animal had a bizarre hammerhead-shaped jaw apparatus. It used its strange jaw to feed on plants, ...