The world’s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found. The fragment of fossilized reptile skin was found ...

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.

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 skin is the oldest ever found for a group of animals collectively known as amniotes, which includes reptiles, birds and mammals — all terrestrial vertebrates except amphibians. It is around ...

Preserved skin in a 280-million-year-old fossil may not be all that it seems. New research has found that soft tissue in Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a forgery and warns against using the reptile in ...

From Richards Spur, a long filled-in cave network and active quarry in southern Oklahoma, a group of paleontologists say they’ve identified and described the oldest fossilized reptile skin ever ...

The team of these proud paleontologists from the University of Toronto Mississauga claim that they have found and identified the oldest fossilized reptile skin in the world ever discovered.