Paleontologists have identified a new ancient crocodile relative, although it looked nothing like the terrifying semi-aquatic ...

The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on the evolutionary tree. One ...

One of the most devastating extinctions in Earth's history is best known for what didn't die—dinosaurs. But the end-Triassic ...

The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology published the formal identification of Labrujasuchus expectatus in May, solving the ...

Only in the warming days of June could a summer CGI-based documentary series about dinosaurs ever come to network television.

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks ...

When Brooks Britt, a geological sciences professor at BYU, searched through the latest Triassic sandstone samples in his lab, he expected to find bones of early crocodiles and dinosaurs. Instead, he ...

Researchers used fossils like this of Early Triassic conodonts, an eel-like marine animal, for oxygen isotope measurement and past temperature reconstruction. Image by Yadong Sun. Some 250 million ...

As the great 20th century paleontologist William Diller Matthew once wrote, "The story of life on Earth is a splendid drama, as interesting as we watch its action and study the interplay of causes and ...