During the Triassic, a newly described species related to modern crocodiles and alligators stalked prey on land, not the ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by ...

Paleontologists have determined that the fossil, which has been stored in the museum basement for more than seven decades, ...

A strange crocodile relative that may have shifted from four legs to two is shedding light on convergent evolution and the hidden diversity of Triassic ecosystems. A “peculiar” reptile from the age of ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

"You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" asked Simba Srivastava. Surrounded by cabinets full of ancient bones in the paleobiology lab, the Virginia Tech undergraduate student held out a ...

The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

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 ...

During the Triassic, a newly described species related to modern crocodiles and alligators stalked prey on land, not the ...